I chose one of Aerie’s tweets as an example. The tweet was: Today’s #WednesdayWisdom is by the beautiful @khloekardashian! #AerieREAL. The tweet also had a picture attached: I think tweet has a high potential for rhetorical velocity because it not only introduces a…
When promoting an idea, company, or organization, rhetorical velocity is a necessary tool that will help circulate what you are trying to say. So when I was looking for examples of this, I skimmed through the twitter profiles of the…
I found many different types of twitter accounts regarding Philadelphia public school funding. The twitter accounts with the most rhetorical velocity are the protests groups who are trying to rally students to fight for their education. The tweets from accounts…
While searching for tweets about my issue that had the greatest rhetorical velocity, quite a few good examples came to mind. There are many more Twitter accounts addressing the issue of homeless veterans than I had initially thought. One great…
Rhetorical velocity is used to anticipate what will happen to a publication after it has been broadcasted. Whether it is a newspaper article, television story, facebook status or in this instance, a tweet, anything that is spread throughout any form…
Charter schools are highly debated in today’s society. Many view charter schools as cash cows that take advantage of their students and parents while others view them as an important educational choice. The two tweets I choose to examine reflect…
There are so many Twitter accounts available for the IBD community. As I took the time to read through the different accounts, I tried to acknowledge the diverse ways to engage the IBD community. I followed accounts whose goals aim to…
For the last few weeks i have been trying to raise awareness on the problems with the over consumption of alcohol, specifically among college students. The groups a choose to follow for this assignment were news sources, drinking problem twitter…
When I was reading through a lot of the tweets about autism, I noticed that many of them used similar techniques to increase their rhetorical velocity. The main methods I noticed were the use of quotes, links to articles with…
Reviewing a water conservation tweet’s rhetorical velocity was particularly interesting because many of the tweets are not successful in gaining attention from the Twitter audience. I looked at tweets from the Surfrider Foundation and found that tweets pertaining to topic…
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