HNN Internship Week 15

Update

My tweets for HNN ran about average this week nothing really hit it out of the ballpark except for my tweet that did really well on engagements. I never expected it to do so well and in trying to figure out why I did so well I think I’ve noticed a few trends.

Trends

1. Tweets do well on Sundays ~ maybe it’s because people have more time to look or a combination of hashtags, and tagging people.
2. Reminding people about the “darker” past of the United States gets a lot of response ~ everyone has an opinion and seeing what others think is important to validate this opinion. When it comes to the darker parts of history a lot of people are vocal. That’s why #hasthags do well when tagging anything with wars, presidents, or in the case of this week, slavery does well.
3. People are more likely to respond either later in the day or around noon ~ This is the trend I am still trying to analyze to see if it is a true trend. But it seems to be. Having people respond around noon makes sense due to lunch breaks. The same goes with later in the day, people are more likely to get off work and check social media. However, I am still trying to see if this is a true trend or not so I will be coming back to this point when I’ve analyzed the data futher.

Best Tweet

 

 

 

This article was on the ideas behind slavery reparations rest on false assumptions. The historian,Robert E. Wright, is claiming that “slaves are the least likely factor in the growth of the economy … that slavery creates negative externalities that swamp the marginal benefits of slave labor by several orders of magnitude.” It is a very interesting article and it provokes questions that we may have trouble answering for ourselves. But the article does conclude, “while slaves were important, the U.S. South and every other slave society throughout history would have created more output without slavery. In addition to being immoral, slavery created poverty, not wealth, and for both reasons should be extirpated from the globe once and for all.” I must remind any who do read this that this is an economic historian. And I think he does have a point in his claims I am not certain if I agree with him but it does serve some ‘food for thought’ especially with what the big ivy-league universities are doing today. Which leads to my next section, why this tweet did so well.

My Thoughts

Now I know I said last week that one’s highest impressions and engagements will not always be the same tweet well this tweet demonstrates my other point, that the tweet with the highest impressions is likely to be the tweet with the most engagements.Notice that this tweet did not get any likes or retweets, I believe why this tweet did really well was due to the combination of trends that I noted above and the topic of the tweet: slavery reparations. 

Back towards the end of March, there were some big news stories on how Georgetown was in the process of negotiation with the descendants of slaves towards reparations. Recently the University of Virgina is discussing the same issues. 

 

As always, thank you for following me on my first internship journey.