A Twitter weblog post that revealed the positions stated that this year folks utilized Twitter to publicly back political transform . (Reuters Image)
Twitter has come up with the reports of what took centre stage at a discussion at the microblogging website in 2020 and ‘coronavirus’ has bagged the top rated position. In its summary of trends something associated to the pandemic with #Covid-19 along with other combinations and been made use of the most, about 400 million occasions.
Black Lives Matter movement, a political and social movement in protest against incidents of police brutality against black folks that shook the United States in May 2020 took the second position and #StayHoem which is against associated to the coronavirus pandemic took the third position.
A Twitter weblog post that revealed the positions stated that this year folks utilized Twitter to publicly back political transform and demand accountability from globe leaders. A post created by IPS officer Arun Bothra about the plight of a kid deserted by the relatives of a migrant couple was also made use of as a reference to show how Twitter was made use of for advocating social problems. Over 700 million Tweets had been created on several elections taking place this years from US Presidential Elections to other state elections and worldwide figures like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Brach Obama and Kamala Harris name had been most made use of in the tweets.
While two US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden took the very first and second rank in most tweeted about folks worldwide, George Floyd, Kobe Bryant, Barack Obama closely followed. Narendra Modi took the seventh position worldwide.
The tragic news of the death of Black Panther actor, Chadwick Boseman in August was the most retweeted message. Boseman’s family’s message from his official account got 2.1 million tweets and 7.5 million likes. Barack Obama’s tweet of death of NBA star Kobe Bryant was the second most-liked tweet, at 3.9 million. Bryant’s former group Los Angeles Lakers had been the most tweeted sports group followed by Manchester United and FC Barcelona
Posts created by commoners for instance about a headline saying “Two deadly viruses are killing Americans: Covid-19 and Racism”, quarantine day moments also acquired top rated slots as most-liked tweets. Kamala Harris’s ‘We did it Joe’ video following the Democratic candidate won US elections also was liked 3.4 million occasions.
Tweets about cooking almost tripled this year, with banana bread becoming a craze. ‘face with tears of joy became the most made use of emoji followed by Loudly crying face and smiling faces with heart eyes.