Today’s society is based off of this game of likes, and whoever achieves the highest amount of likes, as well as outreach, wins. People will do anything to get there, even if it means tricking others in order to personally achieve this new found success. Social media hoaxes may seem harmless on the surface, but […]
Read more "Will You Click This Link?"The internet is a blackhole full of information, content and people that create a culture within our society. Internet hoaxes have become a common theme within all aspects of social platforms. Why? There are many theories. My own personal theory aligns with what most people would first think of; to gain attention and have a […]
Read more "Social Media vs. Viral Hoax"Influence Followers on 8/29: 105 Followers on 11/28: 150 Percent growth: 30% Overall, I think that a huge factor in my follower increase is the fact that this class made me tweet at least four times a week. While I’ve always loved Twitter, I often find myself struggling to keep up a consistent tweet schedule, […]
Read more "Personal Growth and Analysis"When #NHSMC began this semester, my Twitter profile was pretty new; I had 1 follower, 1 like, 3 tweets, and I followed 21 people — and I didn’t think I could become the type of person to really love the platform. Throughout the course of the semester, I’m proud to say that those numbers have […]
Read more "NHsmc Influencer"Influence At the beginning of this course I started fresh with a new Twitter, so my starting follower count was zero. As of 11/28 I had 33 followers. While I’m not a math expert, I believe this is technically a 3,300% increase. This is albeit a great way to express this change, perhaps to bolster […]
Read more "Personal Influence Growth and Analysis & Top 10 Tweets/Posts"Follower Growth When analyzing my overall Twitter growth my follower count increased from 235 to 269, increasing by a total of 14.47%. My Twitter growth was highest in September when I first started posting, I think this had to do with I was following a lot of new people, and in return they would […]
Read more "Personal Growth"@MacMcKonrad Followers prior to COM 427: 5 Followers gained from August-November: +8(160% increase) Total Current Followers: 13 To be perfectly honest I didn’t know how to grow my network for most of the semester. I came into this class with very little experience with social networks let alone successful ones. Frequently I was flying blind […]
Read more "Konrad Twitter Growth/Analysis"Part 1: Influence Overall, I am reasonably by the growth of my social influence over the past 91 day period particularly given that I’ve never been very into social media, particularly Twitter. Despite having a twitter handle for the past four years, I never really used the platform until freshman year and even then wasn’t […]
Read more "Me, An Influencer? Mama, I think I’ve Made It"Tweet: Thanksgiving dinner:Aunt Janice: "Can you pass me a roll?"Me: "Are you suggesting you want me to get this bread?" — Emily Campbell (@emily_soup) November 8, 2018 Background: The tweet I created references an Internet meme that is trending around social media currently. The phrase, “let’s get this bread,” is a slang term for making money, […]
Read more "Viral Content Challenge"Background: The tweet pertains to the struggle of adulting in your 20s. I respond to society via the emotions of a gif. The gif and the topic chosen is relatable to many millennials that are not about that adulting life and would rather have the responsibilities that come with adulting, to stay far away from […]
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