Web and Social Media Production

 

Twitter is a social media platform that has been used primarily for “being social.” However, Twitter can be used for so much more besides just posting updates about someone’s life. It can be used for political purposes, updating news instantaneously, bringing awareness to a specific topic, and to market products. Twitter has a wide variety of purposes, more than other social media platforms. Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, politicians, and organizations in that it can be used to get information out quickly. It can be used to provide a brief piece of information immediately to the audience. The key here is that it is immediate or instantaneous. In other words, Twitter helps them update their audience (followers) with important information in under 280 characters. However, tweets can spread like wildfire; therefore, misinformation can be spread rapidly. For example, Twitter was used to provide information about the Boston Marathon attack that occurred in 2013. Twitter was used ...

Throughout the process of writing this WikiHow there was a lot of trial and error, and there was some struggling at times. It was a lot easier to miss a step while writing them down than originally anticipated. Also, there was a lot involved in the project as a whole. This included taking pictures of each step separately and baking the egg muffins twice in order to make sure everything was there. Then the photographs had to be uploaded to Adobe Photoshop, then they had to be edited and made web ready. Also, basic coding was used throughout the project. The coding was a bit of a struggle at times. The coding had to be exact in order for the output to be correct. Editing the pictures was not that difficult; however, some of the pictures had lost quality throughout the editing process or had glares in them. That was a bit irritating. Overall, the process of creating a WikiHow article was challenging, yet fun, and it is important to experiment with this platform of social media.  The ...