When writing my blogs posts for my Social Journalism class I noticed my posts and tweets did not receive a ton of impressions or engagements. For my WordPress I discovered that I would receive the most amount of visitors the day of or after I had published my blog post. This was most likely due to me posting about them on my Twitter and Facebook. My top visited story was about Bit Burger where it received 5 views. This is not a huge number, but was nonetheless my most viewed post. Almost all of my web traffic was coming from the USA which makes me think that only friends or classmates visited my blog.
When it came to my twitter there was a lot more engagement. My top twitter post was the results of a twitter poll on is UT students were planning on getting vaccinated. I believe this post had a lot of engagements because it was a graphic of results from a previous poll. People received the information in one simple image instead of reading.
My most liked and shared tweets were not even about my beat which was video games, they were centered around COVID. This was due to the group project where in a group we worked on a singular story with multiple aspects about COVID and what the new normal is. While in the group I was in charge of promoting and group members helped promote the posts I made about our story to help increase engagement. Without this I don’t think my tweets would have received as much engagement.
In the end I realized I need to grow on social media and post more frequently. I am no longer receiving new followers, but I intend to by making a steady stream of posts to share on twitter with the use of graphics and videos which seem to increase engagement significantly.
Good Game Gene 