BREAKING: A natural gas explosion injured over 50 patients today in a Mexican maternity hospital, many still trapped. http://t.co/ePIchQyFYu
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Developing News:
More details about the recent hospital explosion as officials make sense of the tragic situation. Updated story here: http://t.co/bMvkE3PHPV
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ News Tweet 1:
The Great Firewall of China blocks citizens’ internet access to key sites
http://t.co/DzEFtvH1YT
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 31, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ News Tweet 2:
The situation in Venezuela gets progressively worse, with vital prescription medicine and food slowly dwindling
http://t.co/zdc67Ljrg1
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 31, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ News Tweet 3:
The death of Egyptian female activist Shaimaa al Sabbagh sparked a women-only protest yesterday in Cairo http://t.co/oNm2ORtT9x
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 31, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ News Tweet 4:
Sectarian violence returned to southern Pakistan yesterday when an apparent suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque
http://t.co/LRHI0qNL8v
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 31, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Upworthy Style Tweet:
What insect has an “electrically charged web”? Hint: I was already terrified of it (and now ever more so).
http://t.co/KtMbgBO9HV
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Commentary/Analysis Tweet 1:
This is so cool— the idea of automation leaves me speechless! Think of all the endless possibilities...
http://t.co/QfgWHWGIBZ
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Commentary/Analysis Tweet 2:
Threat of intentional drone attacks<"threat of normal American idiots.” Esp if idiots own drones. She has a scary pt
http://t.co/mReyMfLkXs
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Atomic Sharing Tweet 1:
Wow, NASA waited 13 months to launch its new space probe due to unsuitable weather. Wish I had that kind of patience!
http://t.co/usvWKTgyyU
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Atomic Sharing Tweet 2:
On Tuesday, a man climbed frozen Niagara Falls not once, not twice, but THREE times within a single day
http://t.co/VONcBk0vmS
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 31, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ Question Tweet:
This NYTs editorial asks, “How Did Politics Get So Personal?” And I ask: when was politics ever not personal?
http://t.co/xKGPT0rMB7
— Kelsey Leck (@KelseyLeck) January 29, 2015
_________________________________________________________________________________ My comments:
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This assignment was definitely a
challenge! It took me a while to adapt to the different styles and find good
articles to share. I think that the style that I'm most comfortable with is
either the commentary/analysis or the news tweet. These are typically the types
of tweets that I use, so they were the easiest to write. I usually have an
opinion on an article or its subject after reading it, so it was easy to
identify what I wanted to say in a relatively short amount of time. On the
other hand, the atomic sharing tweet probably took me the longest. I read so
many articles to find the two that had interesting buried facts to include in
my tweets, so that took a lot of time. But once I had found that interesting
detail, it was fun to actually write the tweet. The one style that I struggled
with a little was the breaking news and developing news tweet. Those tweets were strange to write as a
regular person not covering the event in a professional capacity, because I chose
a gas explosion of a Mexican maternity hospital.
Most people like those commentary/analysis/atomic style. I think that is a sign of someone who is thinking about what they read and consciously sharing rather than mindlessly just pasting in a link. Also, your followers are expecting a certain level of engagement and delivering that with some added value with the link is always great.
ReplyDeleteOn atomic tweets, this was for practice but in general it's not that forced. Sometimes the most interesting thing about a piece that you want to share is some factoid in the article. That's what this style is good for. It really is like the TLI subreddit.
On breaking news, you're right, it was forced. These were about learning the mechanics of those tweets and the progression (breaking, developing, standard) if you're working for an organization that is breaking news. More than anything, I want you to know what that process looks like in terms of best practices.