Author: Charlotte Mcgowan

NHSMC INFLUENCER

PART 1: INFLUENCE: I started off this semester with 0 followers on twitter, and ended with 30, which is 100% growth. The tweets with the most retweets and likes were when I made my own memes/polls. Also tweets that had rich content/mediaThe tweets with the least retweets and likes were posts that had no images. […]

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Blog Post 3

#FacebookDataBreach Considering Facebook is  one of the most popular social media platforms in todays society, the #FacebookDataBreach is an extremely controversial and popular subject taking place in today’s media. Mark Zuckerberg (the CEO and creator of Facebook)  is under investigation for privacy rights of the social media platform he created and many people have mixed […]

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Viral Content Challenge

When You Have a Final at 2, But Have to Direct Traffic at 2:30

 

For my Viral Content Challenge I created a meme with the objective for it to get at least 5 retweets and 20 likes. I reached out to other popular meme accounts, hoping one of them would post it on their feed and help the meme go viral.

WHEN YOU HAVE A FINAL AT 2 BUT HAVE TO DIRECT TRAFFIC AT 2:30.

Overall, I did not reach my objective. I ended up receiving 1 retweet, and 5 likes, which is 1/5 of my goal. I believe that since my follower base isn’t big enough, I struggled reaching the goal. I also could not figure out how to work twitter ads, which also decreased my chances of reaching my goal.

 

Although, I did not reach my goal, I did get very positive feedback from my followers. One even sent back a GIF of a little girl laughing with the caption, “LOL”.

 

Final engagement: I received 12 views on Imgur, which is very few. I would have hoped for more. I think I should’ve chose different hashtags to use, in order to reach a different follower base.

 

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