What do you write when you have no more than 140 characters available, and a story or event you want people to read and respond to on social media? The answer is a Twitter post. Twitter is the second most popular social media site with over 310 million viewers monthly, second only to Facebook (eBizMBA, n.d.). As a microblogging site that melds blogging, social networking and news resourcing, it is by far the most popular social networking site globally (Quora, n.d., eBizMBA, n.d.). I chose to look at the Breitbart News website and Twitter posts to see what was “tweeted” under the digital news organizations umbrella to find what type of content was posted, or reposted. Breitbart’s twitter posts appear to be a mix of Breitbart News stories, reposted tweets from other news organizations, professional news commentators/political pundit tweets, and individual tweets about a story or event. I didn’t see any responses to the tweets, it appears to be an outlet for information without debate, only comments and news links. Brietbart’s Twitter posts are mediated public communication by definition, in that it is “one to many communication” with some questioning and response observed (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008. P. 310). …show more content…
This is how Breitbart News Twitter site operates, but there is very little feedback, and feedback is an important part of the twitter experience. The reader engagement aspect is minimal at best, and if I made only one recommendation to the organization, it would be to engage the reading audience through synchronous and asynchronous communication via the twitter feed (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008. P.
Twitter; a social media platform which connects millions of people together, is one of many
Proclaimed as the hottest company since Google and Facebook, Twitter introduced a revolutionary micro-blogging service in 2006 that allowed users to spread and share short messages of 140 characters (“tweets”) with friends and strangers subscribing to follow their communication flow (as so called “followers”) in order to find out what is happening right now from any point of the globe.
Twitter is one of the most popular social media outlets in the world, having the ability to connect people from all over the world. Though the platform may have its perks, problems such as being limited to using very few characters, being fooled by fraudulent users, and being a detriment to your future career are all risks that one must choose to take. While Twitter may offers many benefits, one must realize all of the consequences that they may be faced with when joining the social media
ESPN @espn uses Twitter Web target audience on its articles to drive content sharing. ESPN’s sidebar moves down the page as a person scrolls, making it easy for page users to click on the embedded Twitter bird logo at any time. If and when clicked, Twitter’s Web Intent pops up a window with a pre-loaded, custom Tweet, enabling users to quickly share the content of their with their followers.
One of the advantages of twitter is a very simple and educational social network. This allows to be aware of everything that interests you, such as communities, celebrities, or just people who are not famous, but they write very interesting things. Although the twitter is a social network where you
Steve Bannon is part of the small but vocal group who are Islamophobic. However, he has very extreme views when it comes to Islam.
Facebook and Twitter have become one of the biggest social media use by Americans. Through Facebook people can share their life experience. In reality life experiences are lost through Facebook because the person posting is not living the experience with his or her friends. Twitter is use to post little messages called tweets that can only be up to 140 letters. Tweets express how someone feels or what they are doing. Twitter
Not even three full months into his presidency, President Donald Trump has received massive backlash for even the most miniscule of things. The media coverage that Trump has is unparalleled to any president before him. Journalists from all over the world realize that the President is the biggest story on earth right now, and they do not intend to ease off. Presented with a story as tantalizing as this one, one has to think why would they want to stop? Readers dig the stories the press writes about Trump almost as much as they disagree with what he says. The columnists have made their opinions overtly clear in their writings with the help of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, motifs and paradoxes. They then follow up on this with cherry
Communicating graphical messages among humans has had many forms over the centuries, from cave painting, clay tables, art, manuscripts, books and newspapers to name a few. Now in the information age humans have continued to evolve to convey messages using the internet via blogging, social networks and internet articles. From tweets, Facebook post, and emoji’s, humans continue to develop and adopt shorter ways to communicate and express their thoughts with each other. Consequently, now in the 21st century social platforms are also changing the landscape of journalism, challenging news outlets to transform their ways and making news reports available quickly. Journalist are held to a higher standard and are expected to diligence when reporting the news, they are expected to deliver reliable, responsible journalism, but in this ever changing fast pace world is Twitter the best mechanism for responsible journalist, especially when they only have 140 characters to inform the reader with the latest news?
Breitbart perceived himself as a new media David out to slay old media Goliath. Breitbart recognised the left exercised its power not via mastery of the issues but through control of the entertainment industry, print and television journalism and government agencies that set social policy (Oney, 2010). Breitbart also mentored and influenced other notable perceived charismatic ‘leaders’ of the new-right movement, most notably: Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder. These journalists/commentators have found an audience in the void of social media. And this is where the new-right has capitalised over traditional media and the left. It is through media sites like YouTube, and social media giants Facebook, Twitter etc., that the new and alt-right have been able to spread their influence relatively unchecked. And it is the ‘forgotten people’ or middle class (Errington and Miragliotta (2011, p.184) that has transitioned to these alternative sources for their news due to their concerns and mistrust over the mainstream media and the
According to these three media sources, which have different perspectives and approaches for the immigration ban, data visualization is important factor that could affect or change people’s thoughts about politic issues even orders from government authorities are reasonable or not. Many people called rednecks who are not interrogate President Trump’s declares about many issues in the United States, they tend to follow the right wing media sources which supports Trump’s executive orders in order to keep controversial issues current in the country. They are not actually showing accurate data about immigration statistics, as the source from Breitbart is based on a survey which is not stating who contributed or did the survey. On the other hand,
These assumptions raised many questions to research as well. Moody, Cohen, and Fournon (2013) raised the first question of “What types of messages did candidates disseminate utilizing tweets during the 2011-12 Presidential Primaries” (p. 3). The next question brought up by Moody, Cohen, and Fournon (2013) was, “Were runner-up candidates more likely than front-runners to include a negative tone in their tweets” (p. 3). Then the third question stated by Moody, Cohen and Fournon (2013) was, “Were runner-up candidates more likely than front-runners to attack their opponents in their tweets” (p. 3) Finally, the fourth and final question raised by Moody, Cohen, and Fournon (2013) stated, “What interactive units did politicians use within their tweets. To what type of content did they link? What was the tone of candidate hashtags” (p. 3).
Audiences start using new media technology to share their thoughts about the live broadcasting of television programs. The television industry understands the audiences’ desires for interaction, therefore developing media platforms for viewers to start online conversations and share comments about certain TV shows. The most popular social media platform of which TV companies take advantage is Twitter as this is illustrated by the explosion of Tweets relating to TV programs
I would like to introduce you to Twitter Inc., a modern and popular form of self-expression on the Internet. It provides users with a plethora of services including Twitter, an application that allows the user to share and distribute content to their followers. The company also owns Vine, a mobile application where users can create and share short looping videos, and #Music, another mobile application that
Twitter is a service for people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. It's an online social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read short 140 character text messages, called "tweets". Twitter is a social website where people are allowed to make posts about different things. Twitter has 645,750,000 registered users as of January 1, 2014. Twitter is now stepping up to global television. Micro blogging is the posting of very short entries or updates on a blog or social networking site, typically via a cellular phone. Twitter allows its users to keep their friends and family informed of their current status. Twitter first began in 2008 as a small project; but now