03.17.10: The initial headline, “now we’re following:” encouraged readers to follow people and organizations that were using Twitter. This March 15 travel tweet comes from Vermont-born musician Anaïs Mitchell, who was on her way to SXSW, the annual South by Southwest festival, aka “Southby.”
03.06.13: Many Vermont Twitter users over the years commented on the state’s Town Meeting Day tradition, when residents of small towns gather to discuss and vote on local issues. This tweet, from writer Matt Crawford, uses the hashtag created to track posts such as these, #tmdvt.
10.08.13: One of many quirky tweets about life in Vermont’s largest city, circa 2013.
06.18.14: Seven Days’ “Tweet/X Post of the Week” included many definitions of what it’s like to live in Vermont or be a Vermonter.
08.20.14: Former U.S. senator Jim Jeffords is perhaps best known for renouncing his Republication party affiliation in May 2001 and becoming an independent, flipping the vital control of the Senate to the Democratic party during president George W. Bush’s first term.
11.19.14: This joke tweet appeared the week that Fletcher Allen Health Care changed its name to the University of Vermont Medical Center.
01.07.15: One of many, many references to Heady Topper, a double IPA produced by the Alchemist brewery in Stowe whose popularity fueled Vermont’s craft beer scene in the 2010s.
01.21.15: Many Vermonters complained about the botched rollout of the state’s insurance marketplace, Vermont Health Connect. This pithy tweet was the tip of the iceberg.
02.04.15: This tweet illustrates two Vermont Twitter trends: posting about the weather and posting about the annoyance longtime residents feel when confronting visitors and newcomers who don’t understand how we do things here.
02.11.15: A year earlier, then-governor Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to Vermont’s opioid addiction epidemic.
05.06.15: This is one of many “Tweets of the Week” from librarian, writer and activist Jessamyn West, who lives in rural Vermont.
07.22.15: Preach.
11.25.15: #Vermontproblems, indeed.
02.10.16: The U.S. Secret Service really did set up shop in Burlington’s New North End during U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run for president.
07.20.16: Remember the Pokémon GO craze?
01.25.17: This one was published in the paper following President Donald Trump’s first inauguration.
11.14.18: File under #Vermontproblems.
01.15.20: This conversation about the site of Burlington’s “Pit” happened at the old Y, which in 2025 is a derelict building covered in graffiti and surrounded by a six-foot-tall chain-link fence. Construction is now under way on CityPlace, the development going up where the former mall stood.
04.22.20: This is from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic; the sign is the Vermont version of “social distancing.”
04.28.21: This tweet was published the day after the beloved Koffee Kup Bakery in Burlington abruptly shut its doors.
08.25.21: This is one of three “Tweets of the Week” from people who tried to get into the wrong Subaru.
09.08.21: The late Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, director of the Spatial Analysis Lab at the University of Vermont, wrote more than one “Tweet of the Week” before he died in January 2024. This one is an example of how Vermonters use social media to encourage each other during dark times, including the pandemic.
01.19.22: Writer Kimberly Harrington achieved “Tweet of the Week” status a few times before leaving the platform; this tweet documents the surge of out-of-staters who flocked to Vermont during the pandemic.
07.12.23: This tweet followed the catastrophic flooding that devastated several Vermont communities in July 2023 and references the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...