Analysis of Social Media News Content

By Samuel Moser

The Minneapolis Star Tribune tweeted about the new Omicron Variant of COVID-19 showing up in Minnesotan Thursday.

The post was labeled as breaking news, and it included a link to the Star Tribune’s story on their website. 


Directly below the tweet, the Star Tribune provided a thread of information in relation to the story. This method of elaborating on the story heavily resembled an inverted pyramid as the information was listed in descending importance. 


I enjoyed this method of presenting information to an audience because it was very quick, easily accessible, and functional (thanks to its link to the actual story).


However, I didn’t like the fact that people often read nothing more than the headline when information is broadcasted this way. 


In addition, Twitter is very informal, and informal news has a lot of downsides. 


Quick and efficient social media platforms seem to be the direction that news media is trending in this day and age, so I guess that we will all have to adjust to the changes.


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