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Is Twitter more effective than the News?

Twitter is a social media platform that allows its users to connect with companies and people to share thoughts. Over time, Twitter has become a place to receive news as well. Twitter allows its users to become a part of the news. The users post about something that is going on, upload photos, and give opinions on what's happening. That tweet may be seen by the user's followers allowing them to retweet it and the tweet thread continues to grow. That allows more people to see it and more opinions on the topic.

Twitter can be used as an organizational tool. Users create tweets to bring awareness to a topics. According to “Here’s what we can learn from how Twitter responded to Paris” by Alexandra Siegel. “As the details of the deadly coordinated terrorist attacks that wracked the French capital Friday evening began to emerge, heads of state, religious leaders, celebrities, and average citizens around the world took social media by storm.” Celebrities made hashtags to bring awareness to the terror attack that took place in Paris. Since celebrities were tweeting about it more people cared. This made people formulate their thoughts on what happened. Another way Twitter is more effective than the news because it allows its users to meet. During the Egyptian Revolution, millions of protesters from a range of socio-economic and religious backgrounds demanded the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Twitter was used to coordinate. According to “Egypt five years on: was it ever a 'social media revolution” by Maeve Shearlaw, “the hashtag #I_participated_in_January_Revolution had become the center of an online battle between the supporters of the revolution and those who opposed it.” Protesters were on the streets and online making it world news. Twitter allowed people from all over the world to connect and see what was taking place in Egypt. 

Most people don’t have time to sit down and wait for news stories. They want it instantly. Since Twitter is always updating its users are always getting up to date news. The election was very popular on Twitter. On election, day influencers were telling their followers to go out and vote. On election night there were polls of who was winning, tweets about the protest, and tweets about rigged votes. Twitter wasn’t successful inaccurate information about the election. Twitter was successful in making people go out and vote. Another popular event on Twitter was the pandemic. Twitter was used to scare the public into staying home, social distancing, and wearing a mask. Twitter was successful in communicating the importance of being safe during the pandemic. Another way Twitter was an effective communicator was on the black lives matter movement #BLM. Twitter created a hashtag that allowed people to connect. That hashtag is still effective to this day and is still being used to bring awareness to the black lives matter movement.

The focus of the Twitter project was to know all celebrity gossip. The accounts that were followed were TMZ and The Shade Room. Those accounts only focus on celebrity news and gossip. They often get exclusive information on things going on in celebrity's lives. The other account followed was Donald Trump, to see his perspective on things. I would have never followed his account if it wasn’t for the project.

Tweeting and blog posts are completely different. Twitter is more relaxed and uses fewer words. This was Asiyah's first time on Twitter so she enjoyed the experience of seeing what it was like. Since she is a Public Relations major it was good to understand how other social media networks work.

conducting a WikiHow page

   WikiHow allows its users to create an article on a technique or topic in which they feel they are experts. The website aims to create the most helpful how-to instructions to allow anyone in the world to learn how to accomplish anything. Wikihow provides steps, pictures, warning’s, and tips on the topic they are writing about. Writing steps for this project was difficult. Not using “I” or “you”, is a hard habit to stop. It comes naturally especially when writing step by step instructions.  This project was a challenge. It tests the ability to pay attention to details, writing clearly, and briefly.

Pictures speak a thousand words. They are very helpful to WikiHow pages. It brings life to WikiHow pages. It communicates to the reader how something should look. Pictures, warning and tips go hand and hand. Taking pictures was a difficult component to this project. The photos for this project had to be taken horizontally. Normally when taking pictures with a phone they are taken vertically. Making sure pictures are included in every step was a task. This recipe is made so often it’s hard to remember the person reading the article may not have experience cooking. It is important to make sure that the pictures are communicating what is being done in the photo. The pictures help and not hinder the reader. The easiest parts of the WikiHow project was the the word count. The instructions had to be detailed but brief. The project had to have at least 450 words.

Since pictures are used to communicate what something should look like, warnings and tips tell the reader things they should look out for. The use of tips is to tell the reader how they can achieve great results from the steps. Since the instructions have to be brief, tips may guide the reader in the right direction. The tips may tell the reader something that wasn’t worth mentioning in the article but needed to be said.Warnings are extremely important in a WikiHow project. The warnings tell the reader what to look out for and what to avoid. Since this may be the readers first time doing the task, there may be somethings that they don’t know.

Another important step in a wikihow project is the coding. When publishing, a wikihow page   it needs coding. Coding is a system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions.The code to "How to cook Rasta Pasta”, is code from another WikiHow recipe, “ How to cook pasta with red sauce.”For this project we were instructed to use coding from another wiki how similar to the one we were publishing. That was a unique element to this project, going behind the scenes of the website. It was also easy, it was just replacing what the original post was with the one being written. During this part of the project proof reading is important. It is very easy to make a mistake while coding. 

Want to learn how to make food from the Caribbean but think it's too hard? This recipe https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Rasta-Pasta is beginner friendly and is sure to receive good reviews. This meal takes 45 minutes or less to make and its easy clean up. With the help of this recipe you'll feel like you're in the Caribbean. The project is used to teach how to keep things short and detailed. With the help of this recipe cooking just became easier.