Thread by @JonBoeckenstedt

Some lessons learned in the last 48 hours:

1) You never know when a tweet will go viral, so make sure it makes sense to people who are not your followers

2) There are an amazing number of people out there who still think standardized tests help low-income students. That PR job The Agencies has done is one for the ages.

3) There seem to be as many people who like charts because they look nice as there are people who like the story a chart can tell (I chose red to violet because of the color spectrum not for National Coming Out Day. But I'm glad it worked both ways, of course.

4) As a tweet spreads through Twitter, the reactions become stranger, the conversation less focused, and the accounts with names like Freedom8459287497USA come out of the woodwork to comment in droves.

5) A lot of people ask for free labor, wanting me to a) re-slice data, b) reformat the chart, c) append other data, d) find data that don't exist, and e) answer all their questions.

I. DON'T. DO. REQUESTS.

6) There are a lot of admissions experts out there who have never worked in admissions.

7) I still like Twitter. The good, for me, outweighs the bad.

Your results may vary.

Good night!