Benchmark follower

I started with 9 followers on Twitter in the beginning of Sept, and finished with 102 followers on Dec. 7th. The overall growth rate is 1033.33%, which means I approximately got 1 new follower per day during the past 3 months. My Klout score is 27. I realize that there are several strategies are useful […]

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Top 10 Tweets

  Below are top 10 tweets of mine during this semester. The tweet with the highest engagement rate (5.9%) is the selfie tweet at @EthanZ’s talk at Syracuse University. The reason for the high engagement here is probably because people who attended the talk were also tweeting and checking out what was happening using relevant […]

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Growing Up: One Tweet at a Time

At the humble beginning of the semester I had a whopping 162 followers, each one of which I was quite proud. But now after an entire semester of learning about how to do it right I have 208 followers, which is pretty cool. Most consisted of personal friends and people I know from #InRealLife. But […]

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My Influencer Analysis

Considering the fact that my Twitter presence was almost non-existent before this class began, I’m happy with the progress I’ve made with my account. On the first day of class, I had 163 followers. As of today, I have 218. That’s an increase of 55, or about 25%. This has been encouraging. When we first […]

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Top 10 Tweets of the Semester

Before I started  this class, I really only used Twitter as a social media platform, to see what people were talking about or retweeting the things that people were talking about. I had never really seen it as a place, that I could mold myself  to create a brand and show my following who I […]

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Doing well by doing good? Normative tensions underlying Twitter’s corporate social responsibility ethos

This presentation looks at the mission statement and Corporate Social Responsibility claims of Twitter, comparing the company’s actions with their claims. Twitter brands itself as a positive civic actor and a force for good by providing an open forum for discussion, organization and dissemination of important information. However, as a private business funded by investors, […]

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My Twitter Top 10

Over the course of this semester, I definitely grew more accustomed to Twitter as a platform. I was reluctant at first, grasping onto the comfort and familiarity of Facebook. But in the music and television industry, Twitter is King. I knew establishing myself in the “Twitterverse” would need to happen eventually. So, here are my top […]

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