Social Media

This week I followed a couple of different news sources on Facebook and Twitter. After taking a close look at Los Angeles Times, KTLA-5 and Patch I have a better understanding of what works and what doesn't on social networks. On Facebook I think the Los Angeles Times was the most successful. They had at least six new story feeds every day. I think this is the right amount of stories to have. If it gets to be more than 10 posts within a day it becomes overwhelming. I think this is the problem with KTLA-5 on Facebook. They had so many news stories that it began to annoy me and get in the way of reading stories that were the best. I liked the Los Angeles Times page too because it has a variety of topics that they cover and it is not focused to one specific thing. I could find a story every day that was interesting to me. Patch on the other hand did not have enough news being filtered out through Facebook.  Once you search for their page, you are given a lot to look at and it is really engaging. But based on my news feed, I rarely saw Patch stories pop up, which I think could be worked on.

In regards to Twitter I think KTLA-5 had the most success. KTLA-5 always had something pop up on my page and each time it made me stop because their logo on Twitter is very bold and noticeable. Also, I felt like the stories they linked out to had intense or sensational style titles, which hooked me in. The Los Angeles Times also did a good job of catching my eye with its logo and story titles. Stories that I think would actually pop up on their homepage were popping up all week and making me want to read more. Patch I think could use some more work. I think because it is so focused on a certain demographic it fails to attract more people. I think their content is very interesting but it is not being advertised as well as it could be.

Overall I think social media is an amazing resource and I think from this point on I will pay more attention to the news that comes on my news feed daily.