Thinking what’s on your mind and wanting to share it the world? Twitter is a great platform where you don’t need to be friends with your followers to get your word out. Twitter is used in so many different ways either for marketing or for news reports, it can be used for pretty much anything. Although you can tweet whatever you want on twitter it doesn’t mean everyone will see it. Using a hashtag is a great way to get someone’s attention to your tweets. Hashtags are used mainly for a specific topic. For example, when tweeting something about the president you may use the #Trump to gain more attention. Twitter has turned into one of the biggest social media platforms since starting in 2006, with over 330 million monthly users.
When using twitter as a news outlet it is very hard to tell what is truthful and not. There have been many cases where people have tweeted during a tragic event false information and that led to more issues. With the spread of Coronavirus many people are relying their information all on twitter by seeing tweets from celebrities, governors, doctors, the president, and so many more. People are reaching out on twitter to share their own thoughts on the virus and ways to prevent it. During the project I followed Governor Cuomo and was able to get live twitter updates while he was doing press release rather than having to watch it on tv. This made me more aware of what is going on strictly in New York rather than just around the world on the Virus. The impact of the corona virus has failures and success all throughout. It can have information useful and handy to someone, but some sources can be false and give out fake information. Another event that many people have started tweeting about is Tiger King. Many people have come to twitter to tweet their feelings on the show and a major topic they are tweeting about is if Carol Baskin killed her husband. Many people are either believe she killed her husband and got away with it while others believe there is no way she could have killed her husband. This has caused a success in the show ratings because it has caused many people to want to watch the show and express their own feelings on the case. Another major event that twitter had a huge impact was the Australian brush fires, during this strategic event many people came to twitter to hear the latest information on the fires and how much it had spread. Twitter helped provided news that was coming straight from Australia to all around the world in the matter of minutes. Celebrities were able to run fundraisers and helped raise money for the fires all by people donating on twitter. Although the brush fires were a tragic event twitter was able to help its success in fighting the fires out.
Twitter plays a huge part in the political points of view, the politician is able to tweet their views on things as well as being able to promote themselves throughout their campaign. Donald Trump’s twitter is one of the most followed accounts. The president is able to voice his opinion on this platform and is able to read other’s opinions as well. People may follow him because they like him and want to know what he’s saying others follow him just to react to the dumb things he tweets, either way he is getting the publicity he wants by posting these things and getting everyone’s reaction.
While doing the twitter project I decided to follow Disney because it’s something I can relate to very well and know a lot of knowledge on. Another account I followed was MTV, I love getting the latest entertainment news rather than hearing about actual news and what’s going on around the world. I also chose it because I have an interest in most of the celebrities they talk about. Lastly, I followed Governor Andrew Cuomo, as the account I never really would follow. When making this decision it was before the Coronavirus hit New York and didn’t care too much for what he had to say. When finally doing my project, I found Cuomo’s tweets to be very helpful and factual. I kept up with the latest updates via his twitter account, if I didn’t follow him, I wouldn’t know most information about the virus because I don’t watch the daily news.
Blogging is away for people to take their time and write out what they want to say when writing about a certain topic or situation. When using Twitter, you don’t think too much about the tweet or replies you send because you can send multiple things at a time and get reactions from millions of different people. It’s a quick and easy way to share your opinion or products in a different way. Many companies like Wendy’s has a large following on Twitter due to the post and reactions they make. Wendy’s like to show humor in their tweets and people enjoy that but when it comes to other social media Wendy’s acts calm. Wendy’s Instagram is full of promoting their food as well as a couple of tweets pertaining their food, meanwhile their twitter is very different form of marketing. Twitter is a great source of News, Socializing, as well as marketing, when finding the right crowd and gaining the right reactions any tweet can go viral.
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