POLAR WEEK

 Help us start a Polar Week Tweet Storm

To advance the presence of polar science within the broader scientific community and society at large, the APECS social media committee would like to invite you to participate in the first ever Polar Week Tweet Storm from March 21st -29th.

Starting on March 21st and continuing throughout the week, we are asking you to tweet polar-related posts and include the hashtag#PolarWeek.

Our APECS Twitter account has over 3000 followers. Imagine if for 1 week, half the people on that list tweeted 3 new posts and retweeted 5 others, all in one day. That’s 12,000 tweets per day; over 100,000 for the week. It will cause people to notice.

The goal of our Tweet Storm is to share the importance of polar ecosystems with the world. By tweeting and retweeting together, we can reach a broader audience. It will also strengthen our own community and potentially open the door to new connections and collaborations. If you haven’t joined Twitter yet, now is the perfect time to do so and get involved!

Some general guidelines about what we are trying to do:

- Starting March 21st, tweet polar related posts using the #PolarWeek hashtag.

- Aim to post a minimum of 3 tweets (or more) per day, so 27 for the week.

- Variety is the spice of life. You can post anything polar-related: thoughts, facts, ideas, pictures, quotes, links, you name it. Even promote your blog or research program. Just be sure to include #PolarWeek in somewhere in your post.

-  You can repost the same tweet more than once. The audience at 1pm Tuesday is not the same as the audience at 3am Friday.

- Try to retweet at least 5 #PolarWeek tweets by other people per day. More or fewer is just fine too; the goal is to spread the polar week message.

We are stronger as a community than alone. Let’s storm Twitter together and bring the poles to centre stage!