Blog post, due Sun night 9/28: The Rhetorical Velocity of Twitter
I’d like for you to take advantage of your little break in work for the class to jumpstart your Twitter, especially if you haven’t spent much time on it yet. The blog post for this week should help you to do that.
1) Find at least 5 Twitter accounts that have something to do with your issue. They could be accounts belonging to organizations, activist groups, or individuals (e.g., Roger Goodell if your issue were NFL & domestic violence). Follow them.
2) Choose one or two tweets from these accounts that seem to have the greatest “rhetorical velocity.” (You’ll need to use the concept from the Ridolfo & DeVoss reading to do this). Think carefully about why they seem to have the greatest rhetorical velocity, and what you might be able to learn from that to make the greatest impact in your own Twitter.
4) Tweet at least 5 tweets related to your issue with the intention of getting good rhetorical velocity. (It’s ok if no one retweets or likes them, but it’s important that you’re working your rhetorical angles to try to get them noticed and recirculated.)
5) Compose a blog entry where you explain what makes those tweets you chose have high rhetorical velocity, and what you did to emulate the tactics in those tweets. Within your blog post, make sure to add links and, if possible, screenshots, to the tweets you’re referring to and the tweets you wrote.
6) Read someone else’s blog post. Choose what you think is their best tweet and retweet it or favorite it. Then let them know which one you chose and why in a comment on their post.
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