Breaking News
BREAKING: Romney won't run for presidency in 2016. Story to come.
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Developing News
Romney says he believes it best to give other candidates a chance to run for president in the 2016 elections. http://t.co/YOfGAGQVvJ
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Standard News
.@LUGreeks revamp fraternity recruitment. http://t.co/zYDXSlJ74M
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Bilingualism may give people an advantage in old age http://t.co/lJ6WWFmvmL
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a Sundance Festival book-to-movie adaptation hit | http://t.co/6qORATbITa
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 28, 2015
The significance of Katniss having PTSD in The Hunger Games http://t.co/dm8sqfeyWo
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 27, 2015
Upworthy
You'll never believe what Katy Perry wore to the Super Bowl press conference! http://t.co/YKm0tuH5Rv
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Commentary/Analysis
According to @TIME, I've read 28 of the 100 best YA books... http://t.co/i0rF5EHbuA
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
A different author writing the a sequel? Hmm that sounds like a bad idea to me. | http://t.co/rCNDS8cYwG
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 28, 2015
Atomic Sharing
“Writing forces people to reconstrue whatever is troubling them and find new meaning in it" http://t.co/72c72k7k8b
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 31, 2015
"There are more African Americans under correctional control today than were enslaved in 1850." -Michelle Alexander http://t.co/AEDFOV4qTh
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
Question
Anybody else think this is a bad idea? http://t.co/WkDxBoNNfo
— Gaby Morera (@gabymulberry) January 30, 2015
I thought this exercise was really helpful in making me realize how you can use tweets to highlight something specific or just the article itself. I usually tweet at least once a day, but sometimes I don't share articles, or if I do I tweet them with a standard news tweet. Although I have recently been trying to add commentary to my tweets, sometimes I still don't feel comfortable with it.Personally, I found that I like atomic sharing a lot because by picking a phrase that really struck me from the article, I can tell people that was the detail that most interested me. I also like the commentary/analysis style tweets yet struggle with them I little more than with atomic sharing. I really hated the Upworthy style tweet. It just felt faked, forced and sort of misleading.It also felt really exciting to tweet a breaking news tweet.
Overall, I liked the assignment and getting to test out different sorts of tweets.
On your question tweet, I might have modified it a bit to add a bit more info, i.e.: "Anybody else think a Mr. Men and Little Miss film is a bad idea?" The reason is you potentially annoy people who don't care about that topic at all. If you're asking them to click, tell them what it's about. You'll find people who do care will click and comment! The question style can boomerang on you if you don't share a little bit more though.
ReplyDeleteThe more you use non-standard tweets, the more you'll get comfortable. Commentary and atomic tweets are where you are adding value. When I think about my most useful for valuable people I follow on Twitter, almost all of them are trying to do more than headline/link style tweets. Really useful skill.