# Future Trends Forum: Where Will Educators go after Twitter?

**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/future-trends-forum-where-will-educators-go-after-twitter/5844
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**Created:** [October 3, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/future-trends-forum-where-will-educators-go-after-twitter/5844 "2023-10-03T17:08:31Z")
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#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/future-trends-forum-where-will-educators-go-after-twitter/5844/1 "2023-10-03T17:08:32Z")

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It’s no news that social media, especially one rebranded as a single letter, is not what it was. I started [poking at this back in April 2022](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/is-it-time-to-try-the-fediverse-twitter-cracks/5242) and [we had some great waves of interest in the Fediverse](https://connect.oeglobal.org/tag/fediverse).

But now we have Threads and Bluesky, plus more activity we see in LinkedIn, plus the dispersing of activity out into various collaborative workspaces (Slack et al) and messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp, etc). Dare I mention Discord?

Many are asking this “where do we go” question, announcing their twitter exits. I turn to @mweller who had a [30 years of EdTech on the Twitter Diaspora](https://blog.edtechie.net/twitter/30-years-of-ed-tech-2023-twitter-diaspora/) and even more humorously but also insightful as Martin does with metaphors, [a review of the “other” spaces as 1970s disco music tracks](https://blog.edtechie.net/twitter/your-social-media-choices-as-70s-disco-tracks/).

We’ve made steps here at [OEGlobal into Mastodon](https://social.fossdle.org/@oeglobal) and using it’s widget [on the home page of our web site](https://www.oeglobal.org/) (the X one is broken). But we are not really quite exiting the problematic platform as, despite its clear ills, open educators are there (perhaps in falling numbers).

Okay, that’s the pre-amble. I just saw [this panel discussion happening this week on Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum](https://shindig.com/login/event/aftertwitter)

> What will Twitter-using academics do now?
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> How many students, faculty, and staff will remain on a troubled platform? What other social media services might they head to instead?
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> This week the Future Trends Forum hosts a panel of higher education Twitter power users to explore. The panel includes: [Karen Costa](http://www.100faculty.com/karens-bio.html), [Lee Skallerup Bessette](https://readywriting.org/) (Georgetown University), and [Thomas J. Tobin](http://thomasjtobin.com/) (University of Wisconin-Madison).

🗓 2023-10-19T18:00:00Z→2023-10-19T19:00:00Z  
📺 [https://shindig.com/login/event/aftertwitter](https://shindig.com/login/event/aftertwitter)

Where are you putting your social energy and focus these days? Or where are you not?

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