The Results of Being Active on Social Media

Posted on by Arlety Gonzalez

Being active on Social Media is one of the main reasons why our audience can easily grow. When I first opened my Twitter account, I never thought about the importance of feeding my followers with information and topics that matter. For that reason, I only had a few followers; 127 to be exact. After taking this class and being active on Twitter, my audience grew and I now have 374 followers. I believe that if I continue on posting things on Twitter repeatedly, I will get more followers.
Following people you know or people with the same passion an/or goals is also an effective way to get followers back.

Take a look at my top 10 Tweets for the semester:

I believe this tweet got a lot of engagement because it talked about a great cause, which is creating awareness for sexual assault survivors. It also included the hashtag #ItsOnUs which has gotten a lot of attentino after Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign. Also, it got re-tweeted 5 fives. 

The reason why this Tweet got a lot of engagements is because it was funny and it included a picture. Also, it was re-tweeted four times and that influences the amount of engagements. 

In this post I talked about my accomplishments in Newhouse. In my opinion, people like to see when someone is doing great things and for that reason this post got 8 likes. Again, I used a picture doing something I love very much: Reporting 🙂 

In this post, I used a picture with some of my friends while watching the Women’s basketball team playing.  I used the hashtag #IBleedOrange because both Orange teams made it to the #FinalFour and everyone was showing their support for them. 

In this post, I forgot to include the class hashtag, but this was the post where we were asked to say something positive about someone else. I chose to tag influential people in this post such as The Chainsmokers, University Union and of course Jessie. Also, I chose to do this because University Univision had just announced The Chainsmokers were performing and I am their biggest fan 🙂 

 I posted this picture because we had just made it to the Final Four and we played UNC, a school which is very close to Duke University. Since our school is very passionate about sports and about beating Duke, I though posting this picture of a tailgate in the snow would be cool. Plus, most of my good friends are in this picture. 

Ahead of the NY Primary, I thought it was a good idea to talk about Republican front-runner Donald Trump since two of his children didn’t vote. 

In order to make it to Final Four we had to beat Virginia, which was number 1 team at the moment. For that reason, I chose to interview Matt Reil whos knows a lot about sports. 

Since I have a lot of journalists on my Twitter account, I just wanted to let them know the top 100 television markets in the nation. I believe this is really helpful, especially now that most of us are graduating. 

President Obama’s visit to Cuba got a lot of coverage nationally and internationally. It was the first time in years since a president of the United States traveled to Cuba. As a Cuban, I congratulate Obama for his bravery and honesty to the Cuban government and the Cuban people. I wanted to use a poll to see whether people believed this visit could bring positive changes to the island. 

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