These last 90 days have provided a new way in thinking about generating content for social media. Primarily, authenticity is the most important. It’s not enough to post about walking to class. People go online to find distractions by entertaining or educating themselves is what I have learned. When strategically creating content I thought of this. My most influential post targeted this audience. Whenever I posted content outside of these parameters a number of impressions and engagement I received dwindled. Strategically thinking using my personality and my thoughts in my posts gave me optimal impressions and engagement and I will continue to use this and hashtags to grow my influence.
#ultabeauty announced @MACcosmetics will be their stores. There goes all my coins but my face will be beat💁🏿best news ever #mua #NHsmtp pic.twitter.com/vxEwXCbQ8v
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) March 18, 2017
Total engagements | 14 | |
Media engagements | 7 | |
Detail expands | 4 | |
Replies | 2 | |
What you finna not do is… 😂 #NHsmtp #where #americaisoverparty https://t.co/ojOZMxqsUB
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) April 13, 2017
Someone sent this to me saying this is me but I can't even argue because this is accurate! My mama told to always shine 👸🏿😂#slay #divas https://t.co/OjGBAa29L9
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) April 11, 2017
Total engagements | 15 | |
Detail expands | 6 | |
Retweets | 4 | |
Profile clicks | 3 | |
Likes | 1 | |
This post is the definition of how when your personality is used on social media people like it. This post generated not only my largest amount of impressions but retweets. I spoke my mind and it worked well.
The day @Ms_TReid responds to my tweets. The diva will come out 💁🏿 #NHsmtp pic.twitter.com/AFEhlpMQTV
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) March 28, 2017
Total engagements | 51 | |
Media engagements | 28 | |
Detail expands | 16 | |
Likes | 4 | |
Replies | 1 | |
Retweets | 1 | |
This was to engage with someone I respected in my industry. She works for Cosmopolitan magazine and I thought the best way to engage her was to post something stylish and cute and it worked. I realized in engaging people you need to say something complimenting.
#BecauseIReallyLove poetry and @TheStriversRow #tbt #NHsmtp pic.twitter.com/mCZC0QhSIf
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) February 28, 2017
Total engagements | 28 | |
Media engagements | 15 | |
Detail expands | 7 | |
Profile clicks | 3 | |
Likes | 2 | |
Retweets | 1 |
This was another high engagement and impression post. I used a trending hashtag and a GIF to drive the post. The hashtag was the most important thing about this post without this hashtag I do not think it would have been so successful.
I am still wondering where #bootbae got those boots @FashionNova I need answers 👀 #NHsmtp #bae https://t.co/14xQuUPXNj
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) March 9, 2017
Total engagements | 71 | |
Detail expands | 34 | |
Profile clicks | 32 | |
Retweets | 3 | |
Likes | 1 | |
Bootbae was a topic of conversation for a while on social media. It has the highest amount of engagement of all my posts. I wrote about what people were thinking and used my own voice and it was very successful.
Snapchat gets real 😎#socialmedia #NHsmtp. https://t.co/iMcHOMLFMQ
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) February 2, 2017
Total engagements | 9 | |
Detail expands | 3 | |
Profile clicks | 2 | |
Replies | 1 | |
Retweets | 1 | |
Likes | 1 | |
This post is about Snapchat because I am obsessed with Snapchat. It was a headline tweet. This allowed me to play with voice and tone in a post. This didn’t give the largest impression but it earned decent amount. It taught me how to create a voice.
The art of performance! #riseup #spokenword #BlackGirlMagic #ICanDoThatAmazing poem and still #slay #NHsmtp #poetrymonth #poetry pic.twitter.com/phj1gxzSrh
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) April 2, 2017
Total engagements | 18 | |
Media engagements | 16 | |
Can we just acknowledge how dedicated I am to being a carefree #BlackGirlMagic on #Snapchat #SnapchatFun #snapchatfilter #NHsmtp pic.twitter.com/k4BmTfgCkl
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) April 2, 2017
Total engagements | 7 | |
Media engagements | 6 | |
This post helped me gained more follower on Snapchat. I earned at least 10 more Snapchat followers. Although I didn’t gain a huge impression on Twitter it reflected well on my Snapchat to earn me new followers.
Jordan year is that you 👀👀#WorkyourMagic #blackexcellence #BlackGirlMagic #23 #Valentinebaby #🎂#NHsmtp pic.twitter.com/H32t6ya2ls
— Rukayat Oloko (@RukayatOloko) February 12, 2017
Total engagements | 22 | |
Detail expands | 10 | |
Media engagements | 8 | |
Likes | 2 | |
Hashtag clicks | 2 |
I loved this tweet because it was not only about my birthday but it allowed me to create a GIF of myself. It used all the components of a great tweet. This post used 3 key things that led to a great impression and engagement success. It was visually strong in relation to the subject of the tweet.
All these posts helped drive up my Klout score increasing it by 20 points. My consistency in posts and strategy allowed for not only growth but consistent growth.