Before taking COM 427, I was unfamiliar with Twitter. When Twitter was founded in 2006, it was among the trend to have an account, so naturally I downloaded it. My friends and I would tweet out pictures that we, personally, thought were funny and would tweet things out to one another. But, that really was […]

From this semester, my social media presence has grown tremendously. From learning different techniques about what to post on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, I know understand what it takes to create posts with higher engagement. This class was highly focused on Twitter, which is a platform I didn’t use too much, for some reason; […]

*Refreshes page and waits for likes* Influence For our class, I decided to deactivate my old twitter account that had 671 followers and start fresh. Starting my new Twitter account @thegnidziejko and trying to get engagement was a challenge. I had ZERO followers, so I started following people that interested me such as Obama, Chrissy Teigen […]

Now that Com 427 is coming to an end, it is time to see if I really am a Newhouse Social Media Communicator. In the beginning of the semester, I started out with 0 followers, as I created a Twitter for the first time. Over the course of the semester, I gained and lost followers, […]

Starting August 28th, I had ten followers on Twitter and a Klout score of 43, mostly influenced by my other social media accounts. I had created my personal Twitter December 2012, and rarely used it. Although I rarely used my personal account, I had used Twitter in the past when managing business accounts so I […]

Analysis of Influence First of all, I did not have had a Twitter account before the beginning of the Social Media Class. Since the platform is not that common in Germany, there was no real need to have a Twitter account for me so far. I have the feeling that Twitter is still a platform, […]

Part 1 At the beginning of this course, I chose to start a new Twitter account. I did this because I wanted to create a professional Twitter account that employers would be impressed with. I grew my following to 27 followers since I started from scratch in September which is a 100% increase. My Klout […]

Part 1 Twitter Follower Growth: Went from 322 to 351 (+29) Klout Score Change: 17.43 to 42.23 (+24.8) What worked: The things that seemed to work best were posting relatable or fishing tweets that cause retweets (three of my top four tweets were retweeted at least once). Two of my three top tweets were retweeted […]