The Twitter Assignment

When it was announced that the next assignments in class would be a competition I was excited, being that I am very competitive. The assignment being that we had to get as much Twitter followers as possible within a week. We also had to get more followers than our classmates. The winner received the extra points. I don’t know how well I did compared to the rest of the class, but I feel like I actually didn’t so well. I think part of the reason as to why this happened is because I was fairly new to Twitter. So I feel as if it was hard to build up followers. The reason I say this is because often when someone looks at your account they look at how many followers you have, and what kind of content you put out. If you don’t have a lot of followers, and if you don’t share interesting tweets you aren’t going to get a lot of followers.   

When I started off the assignment I had 22 Twitter followers. By the end of this assignment I had 84 followers. I feel like I could have done better, but at the same time I feel like I tried my best. I thought about strategic ways to try to gain followers. I thought about what kind of followers I wanted, and what would work.

What I ended up doing was following some of my favorite famous Youtubers and commenting on their tweets. I thought that would work, but in reality it did very little. I ended up getting a few followers because of one of my favorite interests, anime. I started following a few fans of the popular anime Naruto. After that the followers came rushing in. However, after I realized what my follower base was I think I tried too hard to win more of those type of people over. I commented on their posts and shared Naruto related vines with hashtags that I thought were related. Even though most of my followers are Naruto pages or fans, I feel like I had a hard time getting those followers.

I realized what I needed to do to get followers, but I realized what I needed to do a bit too late. I realized in the last hour that following everyone would help you get followers because they usually follow back. I also realized that retweeting helps a lot as well. And to be honest, I didn’t even realize all of this. My friend Randy told me all of this information at the last minute, turns out he could have helped me get more followers. #regret

What is funny is that I feel like I got the most likes on my tweets when I wasn’t trying as hard. When I posted for myself, and when I posted my interests I received the best responses. On one of my first posts I retweeted a funny picture of someone trying to hypnotize their crush. I retweeted the gif and titled the post “notice me senpai”. The phrase “notice me senpai” is used a lot in anime. It is used when someone wants a teacher, master, or someone they love to notice them. It is a very well-known meme in the anime community. As soon as I retweeted that, the account that I retweeted the image from retweeted my tweet. I got over 30 likes on it thanks to them. Today I also retweeted a picture of foxes running in the snow. Guess what? Rich Moore liked my retweet. Rich Moore is one of the directors who worked on Zootopia, my recent favorite movie. I guess we both have a love for foxes. Life is funny that way, twitter is funny that way.