While I have already been using Twitter for three to four years, only recently within the past year or two have I started to really pay attention to informative accounts. This is compared to only using Twitter for social means,…
#Hash tags, @ signs, and clickable links – their everywhere on this social media website known as twitter. You can easily use twitter to find tweets on the latest news/trend, stalk you ex (or your celebrity crush), or create a…
In today’s world of social media, a knowledge of rhetorical velocity is necessary for anyone trying to convey a message to the public. Twitter is one of the easiest means of doing this. It allows for short posts and quick…
A tweet, no matter what it is about or what it says, has rhetorical velocity by design. The character limit is the reason for this. With that in mind, some tweets have more rhetorical velocity than others. There is no…
While I found many interesting tweets relating to the topic of concussions in American football, the tweets with the best rhetorical velocity came from Chris Nowinski and an account dedicated to NFL concussions. #NFL #concussion “expert” gives advice for kids…
When searching for tweets with the highest rhetorical velocity, there seemed to be a reoccurring trend on all of the accounts that I looked at. Pictures had more retweets and favorites than just tweets that featured text. The tweets that…
On Twitter, I found many accounts advocating for public privacy. They made excellent use of rhetorical velocity. For example, Privacyactivism tweeted a link to an article that contains tips on how to avoid ID theft online. This is a good…
There are many great organizations out there that are doing an outstanding job spreading news about marijuana legalization on twitter. I have chosen to highlight a tweet from Pot4Prosperity. Pot4Prosperity is an advocacy group that is seeking to advocate for…
I choose tweets from the ASPCA and Animal Friends as ones that had the best rhetorical velocity. One thing I noticed about these tweets right away is that they had pictures. That definitely drew my eye to them more because…
Rhetorical velocity is used by many twitter accounts as a strategy to try and make their tweets as likely to be shared as possible. In other words, they want their tweets to get favorited and retweeted. When searching through one…
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