We just passed 2K Twitter followers!

By Chris Erdmann

It’s time to celebrate a milestone. On October 24th, 2018, the Library Carpentry Twitter account passed two thousand followers! We thought it would be a great opportunity to summarise our Twitter analytics.

To start, here are our top 5 tweets by impressions since we created the account in May 2016:

Big news today. BIG NEWS. We have a new website: https://t.co/nC1p4gbIAw
We would love your thoughts and comments. Raise an issue on this repo https://t.co/BU5gLKgrEf We finished it during #mozsprint #lc2018

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) May 15, 2018</blockquote>

Data analyst? Data engineer? Data journalist? What are the Data roles we serve in the @LibCarpentry world? #DSinL pic.twitter.com/xo4Zo7pAmP

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) May 16, 2017</blockquote>

The strategic value of @LibCarpentry and @thecarpentries to research #libraries https://t.co/O4vkWEOpwe by @UNC_Librarian @UNCLibrary Libraries as hubs for #DataScience activities on campuses.

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) August 22, 2018</blockquote>

#LibraryCarpentry is now on Twitter! Follow us for news, announcements, workshops, lesson updates …

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) November 4, 2016</blockquote>

Now published @LIBEReurope Quarterly @j_w_baker et al, Library Carpentry: software skills training for library profs https://t.co/0XHsTIwuti

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) November 29, 2016</blockquote>

Our top 5 mentions by impressions are:

Congratulations, everyone! You did it! Portland 2017 cohort of @datacarpentry / @swcarpentry Instructors! @LibCarpentry #porttt pic.twitter.com/J3ceEzwOBQ

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) May 5, 2017</blockquote>

Thank you everyone that contributed to the #MozSprint #lc2018! @ucla_ssda is signing off! pic.twitter.com/AnrdxWoLGb

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) May 11, 2018</blockquote>

Congrats to all @LibCarpentry who've worked hard to get a new, shiny website up and running (and that repalces the old thing we hacked together after the initial experiments with LC). Go take a look! https://t.co/q8iJE7xGOX pic.twitter.com/y03HSaQxKV

— James Baker (@j_w_baker) May 16, 2018</blockquote>

Meet the 2017 Portland @LibCarpentry cohort of @swcarpentry / @datacarpentry instructor training. #porttt pic.twitter.com/GzMWKsLWgO

— Library Carpentry (@LibCarpentry) May 4, 2017</blockquote>

Announcing new grant from @US_IMLS to Expand @LibCarpentry Now hiring Project Coordinator Position. Spread the word https://t.co/yMiW4w2JUo

— UC Curation Center (@UC3CDL) November 6, 2017</blockquote>

Starting in April 2018, our average impressions per month jumped from 8K to 33K. In May 2018 we got our largest bump in new followers at 161 since May 2017 when we added 158 followers. Overall, November 2016 saw us adding the most followers at 279.

These are some of the highlights from our Twitter Analytics. Thank you to everyone that follows us, and as always let us know about all the software and data efforts you are supporting in your libraries!