Reflection on Social Media Case 2: Ellen Degeneres and most Re-Tweeted Photo

To be honest I am not very surprised that Ellen DeGeneres has the most retweeted picture on twitter. Many say that the tweet went "viral" but when you’re a person as popular as Ellen at the Academy Awards with many other very famous people in the picture, to me, that is not considered going "viral." Everything famous people post gets a lot of attention because of the follow base that they already have. So, when you put that many famous people in one picture at such a prestigious event, it doesn't surprise me. Although, Ellen has the most retweeted picture she does not have the most retweeted tweet of all time. A guy named Carter Wilkerson has the most retweeted tweet of all time when he tweeted at Wendy’s and said, “Yo @wendys how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?” Wendy’s replied and said 18 million. This tweet to me went “viral” because of the person who tweeted it and how much exposure it received. A 16-year-old boy who only had 134 followers prior to the tweet and later that week had over 100,000 and got a blue check for a verified account. The tweet got 3.42 million retweets.

In the article posted by Deep Patal, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/302286 it lists the 10 secrets to going viral. All of the material for someone who doesn’t already have a huge following base like celebrities. Celebrities can post anything whether it is cool or stupid and it will automatically get a bunch of attention. This are secrets for someone who wants something to receive attention who doesn’t necessarily have a big following base.

One of the first tweets that I remember going “viral” was the tweet about Alex from Target. In the article attached, posted by Katie Meyer it talks about him a year later and how he now has 3.9 million followers https://www.crowdbabble.com/blog/going-viral-alex-from-target-a-year-later-and-3900000-followers-richer/ That is what I like about social media is that it doesn’t matter who you are or how many followers you have, you have the ability to share your voice for everyone to see. Before social media if it didn’t make the news or was in the newspaper you would be able to find some of these things out. Social media is great for trying to get exposure through a post and hoping many will see it.