The date Sept. 11 has carried significance for the 16 years following the terrorist attacks carried out that day in 2001, which killed 2,977 people, according to CNN. Social media reflects that, as many people take time on that day to join the conversation in remembering the events and those lost. One of the more […]
Read more "Analyzing the use of #NeverForget on 9/11"Latest Activity Activity for the hashtag #GermanElection peaked on September 3 because the most important debate of the election occurred that night. A three-day television discussion including candidates from parties not in the main debate caused the hashtag to pick up again September 6-8. Then as the election was approaching, we see a steady climb […]
Read more "What the world thinks about the #GermanElection"Amorray Marcano, Lisa Nho, Tania Joseph This particular post on the BuzzFeed UK page has been attracting audiences from all over, with its views topping over 14 million, its “likes” over 200,000, and shares over 400,000. Many people, especially women who watched chick-flicks from the 2000’s, reminisce about the movies of those times. The emotion […]
Read more "People Try to Remember Their Childhood TV Shows and Characters"In this video, we feature some Syracuse students trying to remember the lyrics to songs that topped the Billboard charts in 2007. This post was inspired by a trending post from BuzzFeed UK titled “22 Songs Anyone Who Was a Fresher in 2007 Will Remember Perfectly.” Below are the stats we picked up from a […]
Read more "Remember the Lyrics: 2007 Edition"The “overperforming” topic we choose to cover Applebee’s Dollaritas because it is timely as the deal occurring this month. Additionally, it provides utility to our audience of the one dollar margarita special for those of them who may not know about it. After researching the topic, we found that there large amount of backlash the […]
Read more "COM400: CrowdTangle Trending Topic Project: Serena Sarch, Katie Inter, Caitlin Shewbrooks, Alisa Sokolova"View post on imgur.com We chose this topic because it’s been performing really well over the past two weeks with over 2M views and growing. Even though the relative scoring in relation to the page isn’t super high (9) it gets a lot of impressions. We believe it’s because it is doing expectation vs […]
Read more "Jacqui Kane & Alexis Scott Crowd Tangle Assignment"By: Giana Asterito, Colleen Callander, Elissa Candiotti, Emily Magnifico This overperforming post immediately caught our attention. We considered, how could we use this post as inspiration for creating our own viral content? Thus, we decided to ask a group of men a series of uncomfortable questions about hooking up/penetration to see how they would […]
Read more "Guys Answer Uncomfortable Questions About Hooking Up"For our CrowdTangle assignment, we chose this video posted to BuzzFeed Quiz’s Facebook page: Original Video It did very well on BuzzFeed Quiz’s Facebook: We chose to select this topic because we felt it had some important elements to help it do well. For example, the Harry Potter franchise touches many people, and there […]
Read more "Analysis Buzzfeed Viral FB Video: AJ Gersh, Haley Jones, Sasha Levin, Lindsay Schiffman"Many people are constantly craving pizza but don’t such a non nutritious snack! GG cracker pizza’s are a perfect high fiber low calorie alternative for that late night craving. Check out this video to see the simple easy steps to making your own!
Read more "The Yummy Alternative to an Everyday Craving!"Grab some zucchini and try this quick, cheap, and easy recipe. If you’re looking for something sweet, I also have a treat for you. These snacks are good for the soul.
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