With the fear of Covid-19 sweeping the nation, we could all use a little distraction. Luckily, we have Lady Gaga and myself to keep us entertained.
One World Together at Home is an event that was put on by Global Citizen with help from the UN and World Health Organization. The purpose of these event was to response to the Covid-19 pandemic by bringing the world together through music. This event celebrated the healthcare workers along with all other essential workers who are on the front line.
See all of my tweets about the event below.
Thoughts About the Event
I reported on this topic for my Multimedia productions class because I figured this to be a historical event that should be captured. I tried to use a journalistic approach by not writing in first person and leaving as much bias out as possible. I want to pretend that I was tweeting about this from a news agency standpoint because I was curious how reporters handle live-tweeting in this manner.
The experience was not unenjoyable but I don’t know if I would like to do it again in the future. I don’t have a large following on Twitter but I found that I got a lot of engagements on some of my tweets from people who I didn’t know which was interesting.
The only thing I struggled with was keeping up with what was happening in real time. There was a lot more quotes that I wanted to tweet but I would forget them before I had the chance to write the tweet out. I also kept having spelling errors in my tweets so I would have to delete the tweet and rewrite it.
I learned that the people who live-tweet an event are more skilled at it that I originally anticipated. I was surprised on how easily I got distracted during the event and would have to force myself to pay attention because I needed to tweet. I completely forgot to post a photo so I would post a photo if I ever got to do this again, however, I did post an article that had a photo attached to it which I thought was cool.
I could see myself running a social media account but I would want to learn from someone who has done it before. I could see myself having to come up with creative posts and using the social media platform to its advantage.
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