Thing 26- Media Skills


I am not that enamored with social media skills. I guess it is a generational thing. I am pretty good about learning about new technology and cool tools is a great way to explore options that I wouldn’t pick up on my own. I have used Twitter and Facebook sporadically (and our district does not allow Facebook, Twitter  and probably Instagram too use in school) but I had not looked at Instagram until now.
I read a couple of the articles, especially one that compared Twitter to Instagram
Twitter and Instagram for what they really are: tremendously different.
Twitter is the cocktail party of the internet; when stuff is happening the world, Twitter is where you go. When there is an unfortunate world crisis and breaking news, we don’t run to Instagram for the pictures, we run to Twitter for the breaking tweets and live news updates.
But Twitter has a problem, it’s extremely noisy. I talked about it in London just the other day. If Twitter doesn’t fix their noise problem, they won’t survive.
Six years ago, I could send a tweet and get more engagement on it than I do now. I had less followers, but my audience was paying closer attention. It was more serious. Now the amount of information and users on Twitter has gotten so intense that it’s hard to have that same engagement on any of my tweets. It’s hard to get anyone’s attention on Twitter.
On the flip side of Instagram vs Twitter, there is no social network in the world right now that has more of the user’s attention that Instagram. When you’re spending time on Instagram, you’re not paying attention to anything else. 100% engaged and looking at your Instagram screen, each photo of users you follow on Instagram passes one by one. IG is all about that attention. It knows how to keep it. That’s where it is really winning. It’s so different than the firehose of Twitter, people are really consuming content on Instagram, and not merely leaving it open in the background of their phone, checking in maybe now and then.
It’s clear Twitter has a problem and is slipping. It has become a massive firehose. They need to figure out how to curate the feed, like Facebook has evolved to do with their NewsFeed algorithm, or risk losing that attention completely.
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Another article from DB Difference Between. Net
 Summary of Difference between Twitter and Instagram:
http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/differences-between-instagram-and-twitter/

 Table of Differences between Twitter and Instagram
Features
Twitter
Instagram
Text-Only Posts
Yes
No
Photo, Video, and GIF Posts
Yes
Yes
Character Limit
140 Characters
2,200 Characters
Reply Chains
Yes
Yes – limited
Quoting and Reposting
Yes
No
Direct and Group Messaging
Yes – up to 50 people
Yes – up to 15 people
App for iOS and Android
Yes
Yes
All Post Enabled on Desktop
Yes
No – Photos Only
Live Video
Yes
Yes
Stories
No
Yes
Verification
Yes – Request
Cannot Request
Shop Now Link
No
Yes

Summary
  • Twitter and Instagram are both social media platforms designed for sharing media and content.
  • Instagram focuses on media content, while Twitter also allows text posts and polls.
  • Twitter features retweeting, quoting, and multilevel reply chains, while Instagram has only singe-level reply chains.
  • Users can group message up to 50 people on Twitter and up to 15 on Instagram.
  • Instagram offers Stories that disappear after 24 hours.
  • Both platforms allow ads and affiliate links, and Instagram also provides a Shop Now button.
  • The iOS and Android apps are fully-featured for Twitter and Instagram. Twitter’s website has nearly all the same options as the app, while Instagram’s desktop version is limited to photo posts.
I was still trying to figure out how I would use Instagram when I read the article:
How to Create a Physical Instagram Display
  • In the article the author explains how she created a photo board for the library. I really liked the idea so I decided to follow her instructions. I learned how to use Canva to create the background and learned how to use IFTTT to upload files of Instagram photos automatically to my Google Drive.
I followed the simple instruction that Ms. Rendina included and put together:
   My sample Library Wall of Pictures from Instagram:

I liked this project but I didn’t see the need to use Instagram to be honest. I liked using Canva and IFTTT for a project but after exploring this topic further and talking to my daughter who is a big user of all kinds of social media, I realized it is another nice way of photo sharing but nothing I couldn’t live without (generational again.)

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