I live in Utah.🏜 

Some of my favorite places have ancient writings of deer, bears, eagles, snakes, and Kokopelli (dancing figures playing flutes.) When you come up to a large panel, you wonder at the story it is trying to convey. 🦌🐻🐍🦅💃🎷

What does this have to do with Twitter? 280 characters is not a lot.😢 

How do you include emotion with so few characters? 🤔 You use modern-day pictographs. Emoji. ☺

My analysis of my own tweets indicates that tweets that include emoji often have more interaction. 📈

Does that mean that you should eliminate characters completely and go full-on emoji? No, but a well-placed wink 😉 can indicate playfulness or to not take the content too seriously.

If you are using lists in your tweets, you can use emojis for each bullet point in the list. Or use an emoji for the bullet.

If haven't ever used emoji, now is the time to get started. On Windows, hit WIN-. to pull up the Emoji keyboard. On Mac, type command-control-SPACE to pull up a keyboard.

Your assignment:

  🤓 Jot down examples of tweets that you like that use emoji

  🤓Rewrite yesterday's tweet but insert an emoji or two. "Hi, I'm [FILL IN] I tweet about [FILL IN] [EMOJI] #twitter4devs [INSERT IMAGE]"