Our group consisted of Julia Meehan, Ashley Cooperman, and Pravin Persaud. Our group name was Misc. because we all had different beat topics.

1. Civic Spirit

https://twitter.com/PravinPersaud/status/1103064041663156225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjulia_280_%2Flikes

2. Eating Spot

https://twitter.com/PravinPersaud/status/1103415745071980550

3. Local Business Owner

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1103727331154280451

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1103727649837465600

4. Student on the Street

https://twitter.com/julia_280_/status/1103791277680852992

5. Academic Excellence

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1102968195219099648

6. Scenic Spot

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1102968457329430528

7. Little Known Fact

https://twitter.com/PravinPersaud/status/1103059881530134529

8. Culture Club

https://twitter.com/julia_280_/status/1103112901529923587

9. Fun Fact

https://twitter.com/julia_280_/status/1103099352686477312

 

 

Responses to Other Students:

https://twitter.com/julia_280_/status/1103792112280178688

https://twitter.com/julia_280_/status/1103792614619394048

https://twitter.com/PravinPersaud/status/1103417794467713024

https://twitter.com/PravinPersaud/status/1103419459090432000

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1103732188791689219

https://twitter.com/ashleylaurenn28/status/1103731792404713474

 

Final Thoughts:

This exercise was a great look into the life of a social media manager. It was fun to capture the best parts of the campus and surrounding area and share fun facts and insights. It was also a good exercise in interviewing and presented a unique challenge because of the short nature of tweets.

In that vein, the hardest part of this process was trimming down thoughts and quotes to fit within Twitter’s character limit. When planning for this assignment, that didn’t seem like too big a deal. However, out in the field, it was a challenge to decide what needed to be cut. Although long words and complex vocabulary words are celebrated in traditional forms of writing, in tweets it was important to consider the effectiveness of more simple words and use those instead.

Another fun part of this assignment was the media involved in the tweets. As journalism becomes more of a “cottage industry” where one person does a lot of different tasks, it was good practice to take our own pictures and shoot our own, albeit short, video. Finding the right shot to encompass the information in the tweets was a rewarding process.

Overall, this assignment showed that tweeting is not as simple as it’s thought to be. It is important to really think your content through to make sure it is concise, effective and correct. Although tweeting for personal use can be simple and thoughtless at times, tweeting with a professional purpose is a whole other process that takes time to perfect.