Social media platforms are no longer seen as just an avenue for distributing content, and with more features being added to Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, there are many ways journalists can experiment with different storytelling formats.
Alfred Lua, content crafter at Buffer, outlined 20 creative ways to tell stories on social media platforms in a recent post.
His tips include writing up an entire story in a Facebook post (as opposed to trying to divert people back to a website where they can read the article), using multiple Instagram posts to tell a story or piece together a larger image, and crafting a Twitter Moment to get more engagement out of a series of tweets.
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