This class was my first real experience using Twitter. I started from a completely blank slate and at the start of the semester with 0 followers. Over the course of the semester, my follower count slowly grew and today I have reached a total of 27 followers. When I created my profile, my follower count […]
Read more "A Newbie Trying Twitter"On November 11 the country celebrated the holiday of Veteran’s Day. While most Americans took time to show their respect on social media, there were some who took the opportunity to protest President Trump including at a parade in New York City. All of these tweets included #VeteransDay even though they all had such different […]
Read more "Veteran’s Day: Same Hashtag, Different Views"Going viral in 2019 is very difficult, there is so much content on the web that it’s almost impossible to create content that has the possibility of going viral without already having a large following. When starting the assignment, I only had 20 followers on Twitter and had never used Imgur before so it was […]
Read more "Trying to go Viral in 2019…"A hoax can take over social media completely and when it does no one is safe- even celebrities. Back in August, there was a hoax floating around on instagram that the popular photo sharing site was changing it’s privacy policy- making all users’ content public, even messages. Many celebrities fell for the scam and reposted […]
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