For this live-tweeting assignment, I decided to watch the President Trump and coronavirus task force press briefing at the White House. We were supposed to keep it professional and journalistic with our post and I did my best to report the facts from the event as it happened! Check out my feed either here or look at my feed below:
I was surprised at how easy it was to keep a journalistic approach because of the nature of the press brief. There were a lot of facts being presented quickly that were easy to relay. However, a lot of the information didn’t have sources presented, so I felt like I was just saying “President Trump says” and “According to Trump” a lot.
This also kind of leads into what I enjoyed and didn’t enjoy about the assignment. It was great to actually analyze what was going on and pay more attention to the facts and how much of the briefing was actually focused upon the coronavirus and how much was tangential. I also enjoyed my peers and others interacting with my tweets and actually getting involved in politics. I didn’t enjoy the fast-paced rapid-fire tweets I was putting out. I was making about a tweet a minute and was still missing some things, so I felt really frustrated towards the end. I also really wanted to engage with what was being said but I had to remove myself to keep it professional and felt as though I was pulled out.
Having said that, I did learn a lot about what goes into a 24-hour news cycle and staying relevant. Seeing a lot of peoples’ live tweet feeds is incredible and I have way more respect for what they do! I can’t type as fast as they are saying things, but for the future, I would probably try to use voice-to-text and just use typing for the hashtags and mentions.
In the future, I think it is important to use social media to make your brand known, and the company I work for uses meager and kind of lazy social media. I think that if I were to take over, having constant presence and posting things that are relevant and with the times. When I did a social media critique, I analyzed the Seattle Seahawks’ social media, and they are experts at creating memes and funny things that are relevant to the culture at the time that the audience interacts with on a huge scale. So, in my field, that is what I’d want to do. Make advertisements and announcements in a format that consumers would find entertaining yet informative!
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