In my last blog series, I discussed Instagram feeds and their tendency to only show a part of a story when it comes to world news. This series will be looking at Twitter and its own tendencies when it comes to visual rhetoric and the news. When looking at a Twitter feed, there is a mass of information to scroll through. To search for news stories, however, is fairly simple. There are several options to finding news through Twitter: you can go to the ‘Explore’ tab, search for a hashtag on a certain topic, or select one of the tabbed categories at the top of a feed (COVID-19, sports, entertainment, etc.). For my own little study that I conducted, in order to explore how visual rhetoric affects reading the news on Twitter, I searched up the hashtag #yemencrisis on Twitter. I was inspired by a few recent posts I had seen about it on other social and news medias and wanted to see what would come up. A good feature that Twitter has when you search up a specific topic is that it will show suggested accounts to follow related to that topic, as shown in the screenshot above (apologies that my phone is in Spanish).
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