After watching Lara Setrakian from the Ted Talks “3 ways to fix a broken news industry” I immediately started brainstorming on the key facts I picked up on. Before undertaking the research needed for my posts/links I read Tutorial: Twitter for Journalists which allowed me to understand how to make a tweet and learn about the use of hashtags, “A “hash tag” is a word embedded in a tweet that starts with a “#” sign”. I then researched the topics I had brainstormed including: use of clickbait, creating fear in the public with uninformed news, Hippocratic oath, how news companies find what’s worth reporting, statistics on the reporting from global events in Western Society compared to Syria, Iran, and Iraq.
Once the posts were done, I decided what I enjoyed sharing on Facebook when posting a link it automatically would come up with the image below the text which makes the posts more appealing to read. I found that being able to simply copy and paste an article with a key point of the message easy for viewers to read and scan the information quickly. Con’s that I found included
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One thing I learnt which I think is a greater benefit than Facebook is that Twitter allows you to have “multiple accounts e.g. a personal, and a work account at the same time”. Twitter is virtually public, it has more domains and pings in google to allow readers to view more content. This allowed for me to be able to read others tweets easily and the use of the hashtags allowed me to easily find more information at the click of a button with no regard to privacy. The only thing I didn’t quite like on Twitter was the fact that links cut into the word limit, then I learnt in the Twitter for Journalists that you can change a url with bitly to make it shorter in length which is beneficial to not cut into