Update
My numbers this week were pretty standard. Though I think there may be a trend in that our senators in congress are hot topics and do well. I’ll have to keep an eye on how those tweets do in the future. My tweets can be found here.
Lesson Learned
Unfortunately, I think my numbers would have been better if I had not gotten distracted this week by my school obligations. I know school is important but so is this. I think if I had managed my time better I would not have put off my tweeting. That is to say, I only met the benchmark for tweeting this week. So while I did complete my work and it is satisfactory it could have been better. I tweet for HNN six days a week normally. This week I only tweeted three days. Which is ok but to me that is like saying a ‘C’ is ok. Which it is but it’s the idea that one can do better that gets me.
What I’m trying to say is that this week reminded me that I need to be managing my time in a way that is productive to both my school work and my internship. I can do it, I know because I have been, it takes effort.
This week was a good reminder of the effort meaningful work takes and the time management skills that one should have to make that work meaningful in the first place.
Best Tweet
I did have one tweet better than the rest. 
Thet tweet was on the article, Congressman Steve King is not an Outliner by Dr. Karlos K. Hill.
This article goes into two ideas:
“First, Steve King has served uninterrupted as U.S. representative of Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District since 2003…how fringe can his ideas be if Iowa voters have consistently reelected him? After all, King’s “someone else’s baby” tweet received 14,000 likes on Twitter. Second, the idea of white racial purity and biological determinism runs much deeper than we are oftentimes willing to admit.”
Concluding:
“Highlighting the prevalence of anti-black stereotypes and the biological deterministic worldview from which they stem is to suggest that while Steve King may be outlandish, he is not an outlier. It is also to suggest that as a society we should not take too much comfort in chastising King for his remarks less we overlook how we are all complicit in and need to confront white supremacy in all its guises, past and present.”
One thing that surprised me about the success of this tweet was that it did as well as it did, I was honestly expecting one of my other tweets about Trump and Kennedy to do better. But when looking back at it this article was one that was interesting and to the point in a way that made sense. It was published at a good time considering the masses would recognize Steve King’s name, and the #racism tag probably helped it to reach audiences that it might not have otherwise reached.
Sincerely,
As always, thank you for following me on my first internship journey.
-Alexis Cruz
