Tuesday 23 January 2018

(Not So) Free Birds

Hampstead school is notoriously bad when it comes to Twitter. The school has several 'official' accounts that have been misused or unused over the years. The Hampstead School account has zero tweets, and the school Updates account - designed to provide a quicker (and less costly) way of contacting parents with need to know information at the height of the school's push to be technologically literate - has nine tweets, the latest dating as far back as October 2009. No wonder neither of them have any large amount of parent followers.

The account that does seem to have a lot more use (and a lot more followers, although these are mostly companies not parents) is the Hampstead Sixth Form account. However, some of its activity of late has grown to be a little bizarre and off-topic for a school account.

Although activity has stalled in the last few months, over the past year tweets have ranged from "Hi @wattbike Our screen's frozen as in the attached pic. Buttons unresponsive. Any tips to unfreeze/reset??" to "I just found out my note is E! What's yours? @SingTrueApp". Other strange tweets include "Rwanda begins Zipline commercial drone deliveries", "US election: My secret life as a Texan Trump supporter" and "Humans need new skills for post-AI world, say MPs".

Whilst some of these may be all in the interest of proliferating educational news stories, you have to scroll back to March last year to get a tweet that says anything about sixth form students at Hampstead.

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