Greta Thunberg has been in the news for quite a while now and that brought me the idea to write about her twitter page.
In Greta’s bio box, with simple and concise words, she prides herself in being “a climate and environmental activist.” Also in the same box, one can find that she is from Sverige (in Sweden), her Ted Talk link on Youtube (about climate change), and she joined Twitter in June 2018. She also mentions that she is 17 years old and has Asperger’s (a syndrome that causes some communication problems basically)
Her activity on Twitter is mostly retweeting tweets about climate change strikes and protests in every part of the world.
Greta’s sense of humor in twitter is displayed by ignoring Donald Trump’s tweets about her, and at the same time, taking his words and putting them as her personality description in her bio. For example, one time Donald said on Twitter that she had an “anger management problem” and should go to “a good old fashioned movie with a friend”and finally added “chill Greta, chill!. She put those exact words in her bio and said “a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend”.
Greta follows about 1800 people who advocate for climate change and journalists who want to help. She has more than 4 million followers from all over the world that consist of admirers, haters, and bots.
To me, she appears as a an extremely resilient girl who is brave enough to talk about one of the most sensitive topics on the internet while receiving insults and mocks daily on her posts. She occasionally posts about the fun and family aspects of her life, but her twitter account is putting herself on the war field as a soldier who is ready to die for what she believes in.