Scraping by on little more than 60 followers, North Ridgeville Schools top brass figured their Twitter account just wasn’t worth the hassle anymore. The district killed its presence on the social network recently to almost zero fanfare.
“Twitter just flopped for us,” schools spokeswoman Amy Rutledge tells the Chronicle-Telegram. “We were getting very minimal activity with it.” The district handle, @NRCSRangers, proved not only to be a pointless void for school officials, but it also forced education administrators to confront Twitter’s restrictive 140-character limit. To wit, Rutledge and crew didn’t like the idea of having to cut into the English language with abbreviations, goofy hashtags, and constant updates to their Flappy Bird scores.
“When you’re a school district, you probably don’t want to talk in slang,” she adds.
No word yet on North Ridgeville Schools’ blossoming Snapchat account.
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2014.
The Twitter universe just doesn’t seem like a professional setting for any school district.
Hey, education administrators are supposed to be teaching kids how to express themselves in English, so they’d be severely handcuffed by the restrictive140-character limit.
Also, having to cut into the wonderful expressiveness of the English language with abbreviations, goofy hashtags, and the like seems counterproductive to me, as it no doubt did to them.
They were probably just too damn intelligent to bother with tweeting. You can’t have Twitter without at least one twit.
Chuckles the Clown
Oh no! This is truly horrible news! How ever will I be able to continue with my day? (starts sobbing uncontrollably)