social media

Twitter: From Beginning to End

Growth:  I began this Twitter account (@KiaraBunting) with 7 followers. To date, I have 53 followers. Additionally, I have a Klout score of 33, which has increased tremendously since the first days of my Twitter account. What Worked:  I found that there were three very effective ways to gain followers, and influence. The first was […]

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#CSTop10

Welcome to the #CSTop10 (like #SCTop10, only with my name instead of SportsCenter…ok I tried.) In looking back to find my top 10 tweets, there was so much fun, interesting, and compelling content surrounding the tweets that brought back a lot of cool memories from all of our different Twitter assignments and the engagements that […]

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Increasing My Influence

My Knowledge

This course really helped increase my following and my Klout score because I was consistently using hashtags and creating new types of content.  This class has taught me not to be limited to just tweeting text. I have learned the importance of using GIFs and photos to create engagement.  The use of hashtags has allowed me to engage with new users.  I was able to achieve a follow from @Adweek which I would have never accomplished if I had not tweeted out to them which started from one of our COM 427 assignments.  Not only was it an extremely satisfying follow, but I worked for it and achieved it.  At the beginning of the semester, I started out with 272 followers, and I now have 324. I was able to gain 52 followers over the duration of the course which is pretty impressive, I think.

I think the recipe for my success was following the assignments and engaging with as many people and accounts as possible.  Keeping up to date with social trends and news also helps keep content fresh.  Photos and GIFs, as mentioned earlier, definitely creates more engagement probably because it breaks the clutter of the Twitter feed.  While I do not exactly know what doesn’t work to gain followers, I do think that excessively tweeting (ie. live tweeting) can cause a drop in followers.

Klout

My Klout score was directly affected by COM 427.  As you can see from the beginning of the semester in September, my Klout score started at 49.77.  By the end of the course I was able to reach a high of 62.57 which is a 12.8 point difference.  Another thing to note is that apparently jumping from a 50 Klout score to a 60 Klout score is one of the hardest things to achieve, according to my Advertising professor.  None the less, my Klout score has been a direct correlation from this social media course.

Conclusion

COM 427 has helped my social media influence skyrocket.  I was able to increase my Klout score by approximentaly 13 points and gain 52 new followers.  I learned the ins and outs of social media and I couldn’t be happier with all my new knowledge.

 

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My Benchmark Influence Analysis

My average goals at the start of each semester have not usually been to increase my follower growth on Twitter. Up until taking this course, I had lost my touch with Twitter and lacked the ambition to increase my network, specifically on my professional Twitter account. Since starting COM 344, my growth has increased from […]

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0 to 37 in 3.5

I started out the semester with zero followers on Twitter. Now after also three and a half months, I have 37. That may not seem like a lot of followers but it is a lot more than I started with. It was hard to get followers in the beginning. Mostly, either people from the class […]

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Rising Social Influence

Virtually everyone I see daily – my peers, professors, and friends – use social media in some form. Social media is used to share thoughts, articles, interests, and content. Individuals in my age group like to think that since we have grown up with social media and since or personalities demand it, we have all mastered […]

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@emjaywatson’s Top 10 Tweets

The most successful tweet from this past semester that included the class hashtag was my tweet promoting a YouTube video made with a friend. This tweet currently has 757 impressions with 26 engagements. I knew any tweet in which I tagged my friend James would get engagements due to @GongoozleTV’s over 4,000 followers. Jame’s title […]

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#BrusselsLockdown: The Internet’s Perfect Response to Terrorism

The situation in Europe over the past two weeks has been terrifying. It started with the tragic, ISIL-led terrorist attack leaving 130 victims dead across Paris. Then, as new intelligence information came in, anti-terrorism raids were carried out – resulting in shootouts and one woman in a suicide vest blowing herself up. There is still one individual […]

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Pixar’s Super Team Short

Pixar has always been known for both their revolutionary animation technologies as well as their unique stories. While usually the feature film is praised more than the animated short that prefaces every Pixar movie, “Sanjay’s Super Team” seems to have generated more buzz and excitement than The Good Dinosaur. The main reason for this seems to be that […]

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