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Is this Bristol’s most prolific tweeter?
Twitter has officially been with us for 10 years, and tweeters everywhere are hashtagging #LoveTwitter to celebrate the social media giant’s birthday.
To celebrate this marker of the all-too-rapid passage of time, we conducted an interview via DM (that’s direct message, for all you old fogies) with one of Bristol’s earliest and most prolific twitter users Hayley Constantine, aka @hayles.
Since joining the social media platform in 2007, the “reviewer/lifestyle blogger/enjoyer of sleep” has posted more than 192,000 tweets.
Sp when does she find time to post (and repost) so many thoughts?
“Whenever, really,” she replies. “I don’t follow a huge amount so its not too difficult to keep up. I tend to reply most when I’m on a bus. Thankfully they don’t make me as grumpy these days.
“I joined in January 2007, apparently – I think it was more so I could make sure I had my name! I followed just a few people that I already knew, but it was only when I moved to Bristol in June 2008 that I found it useful to meet new people.
“My favourite thing is just how you can easily find people with the same interests – not just with hashtag chats and searching them out but things like @bristol52 let you meet loads of new people.”
Though eight years have gone by, Hayley says her Twitter style has remained very much the same. And despite her frequent tweets, she’s always played it safe.
“I’ve always tried to keep in mind who would see it,” she said of her posts. “I try to not say anything you don’t want my nana to see.”
But she also knows how to please the crowd.
“Photos on this account get the best response,” she says. “Mostly my dogs and my lunch!”
Her persistence and puppy pictures have paid off has gained her 2,607 followers at the last count.
So will Bristol’s most prolific twitter user ever stop tweeting?
“Probably not, unless there was a major change and everyone abandoned it.”
In other words, keep an eye out for that 200,000th tweet.
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