When you think about cowboys, social media doesn’t exactly come to mind.
The word “cowboy” invokes nostalgic images of boots, hats, horses, cattle, and the outdoors.
Basically the opposite of modern technology.
But what if these two things were merged together?
Well, they have been.
Meet Tim Send. He’s the director of security at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
And he recently became one of their social media guys.
It’s going exactly as you might expect it to. And it… is… so pure.
We get to a witness a cowboy trying to figure out the internet. We are so lucky.
Send is responsible for gems like spelling out the word hashtag instead of using the symbol then explaining: “Lucas, my grandson, told me to use hashtags.”
And Tweeting “Twitter tips, please” and then “Sorry, thought I was Googling that. Thanks, Tim.”
He says please when Googling stuff. Are you in love yet? Because we are.
It all started on March 17 when the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum had to temporarily shut down on because of the regulations to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Since non-essential staff were no longer allowed in the building, they needed someone to keep up their social media accounts.
Send was quite excited to start in his new role and was all smiles in his first Tweet even though he was a social media newbie
“Never done Twitter before this, absolutely,” send told Fox 23 News. “It shows. Ya, it definitely shows.”
His posts went viral from that very first Tweet with 53,000 likes.
It just kept getting better from there with Tweets like: “Hashtag John Wayne” and ending every Tweet with “Thanks, Tim” like it’s an email.
But Send says that the writing out hashtag was supposed to be”kind of a joke.”
But some of his best gems are Tweets directed at his grandchildren like: “Lucas, can you read this?” and “Hello, Lucas and Keira. There’s a snake in my boot!”
So… freaking… wholesome.
We even got to see Send learn what a selfie is and how to take one.
“Didn’t get the Selfie Station photo quite right. I get it now. Here’s the Selfie Station in the Warhol and the West running through May 10, 2020. Thanks, Tim,” he explained in a Tweet.
Send basically became an overnight superstar.
The museum’s Twitter followers went from 10,000 followers to 275,000 in about two weeks.
Celebrities like Toby Keith, Sarah Silverman, and Patton Oswalt have even been talking about him.
“I think it’s my 15 minutes,” Send said
Send just hopes that people are having a good time enjoying checking out his Tweets, especially when the nation is facing such a tough time.
“They can call them dad jokes or whatever makes them happy. They’re just fun,” Send said. “It’s tough. But ya, I would like everybody to try to keep a positive attitude as much as they can about all this.”
He says he and the museum’s social media accounts are doing their best to keep people in good spirits.
“I think people are looking for something to brighten their day as a distraction to what is going on around them,” Send said. “And I think that’s what we’ve created here.”
Learn more about Send and his rise as a Twitter celebrity in the video below.
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