Twitter & What I Found There

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I have had a twitter for years but I have never used it for anything academic or career related. This post will chronical my first time looking at twitter on the business side of things and will detail what information I found that pertains to my future career and current majors.

Twitter Page 1: Bloomberg Business 

The first twitter page I looked at was Bloomberg Business (@business). The page’s bio reads, “The first word in business” and the page seems to act as a headline page. As you scroll through the twitter page all you see are pictures with pertinent, short headlines. Each tweet contains a link to a full length article on bloomberg.com. This twitter page is not necessarily insightful on its own but instead acts like a magazine cover. All the viewer can see is headlines and large pictures unless they are enticed enough to clink on the link and read the entire article. The twitter page contains recent news stories as a tweet can be sent out easily whenever a new article is published.

Twitter Page 2: National Geographic

Surprisingly the @NatGeo twitter page doesn’t contain any photographs but instead is comprised of headlines and links just as the Bloomberg business page was. However, these headlines are much shorter and considerably more vague. They almost don’t seem like headlines but instead interesting statements which makes me much more interested in clicking the link and actually reading about it. One interesting article on the Nat Geo Twitter page is “59 in 52” a piece where a couple heads out in a small silver airstream on a mission to see 59 state parks in 52 weeks (1 year). The piece has both photos and text about their adventure through the parks but it the tweet that got me to click the link: “Photographer Jonathan Irish is traveling to 59 parks in one year. Follow his journey”, it is hard to say no when someone invites you to follow them as the visit all the places you’ve wanted to see.