University of Delaware Use of Characters in Social Networks Discussion Paper

Assignment #10

Write a Twitter and Facebook Post
Due April 7

Twitter started in March 2006 and by 2016 there were 319 million active users. In March, 2006 a tweet was comprised of 140 characters. In Novembers, 2017, the length was doubled to 280 characters except for Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Content of tweets according to Pear Analytics

News (3.6%)

Spam (3.8%)

Self-promotion (5.9%)

Pointless babble (40.1%)

Conversational (37.6%)

Pass-along value (8.7%)

Facebook, an American online social media (Links to an external site.) and social networking service (Links to an external site.) company based website launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook has more than 2.32 billion monthly active users (Links to an external site.) as of January 2019.

1. Using the organization from Assignment #1, compose a 140 and 280 character tweet.
2. Using the organization from Assignment #1, compose a Facebook post.