30 days ago, I had not posted on Twitter for 7 years. The world has changed twice over in the interim. Twitter had assumed a particularly heinous place in many people’s minds. 

30 days ago, blog posts were the only independent digital writing I knew of. 

A list of Preconceptions (P) I had and the Reality (R) I witnessed 

P - Twitter will be full of hateful people

R - I haven’t come across a single hateful soul yet

P - Everyone will want to hear what I want to say

R - Some people connect with what I say 20% of the time

P - What I have to say is unique

R - Many people have been saying them for a long time, and expressing them better

P - It will be just a bunch of people making pithy comments

R - That is true, but there are numerous novel and actionable things I have learned over the past 30 days

P - People will be writing about super niche things

R - 80% of the writings are about productivity and self-help. But there are lessons to be learned when the same thing is said in two different ways by two different people can have two vastly different reactions.

P - I have enough unique things to write for 30 days 

R - I got close, almost 30 posts written, but there have been days where I have struggled to write

P - All the posts will be text-heavy

R - Most are, but I have been surprised by the ingenuity of writers to use gifs, emojis, images, videos, and illustrations

P - There are limited things you can write about within the constraints of 280 characters

R - I have been amazed by the variety of digital writing on Twitter - threads, atomic essays, tweetorials, etc.

I have been proven wrong on most of my preconceptions and, in most cases, pleasantly so.

Here’s to another one year of being proven wrong.