A simple social media campaign made one hashtag trend on Twitter for a day. On Jan. 25, Bell (a Canadian telecommunications company) launched a campaign to promote mental health awareness and raise money for Canadian mental health services. For every Tweet (including Retweets) using #BellLetsTalk, the company donated five cents. This year, the campaign raised […]

As January was a big month in regards to political transition, we decided to analyze one of the most controversial topics of the month, the Muslim Ban. View post on imgur.com The latest activity graph shows a spike in activity over the announcement date, January 27th, of the ban, and the following days. Between the […]

With more than three million men and women who joined to walk in solidarity on Jan. 21, the Women’s March sent a strong message: Americans wouldn’t be silenced for their beliefs of equal rights. Though the number of participants was impressive and the March spread to other cities across the United States, the Twitter activity […]

It should come as no surprise that the 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump caused mass controversy across the globe. From start to finish Trump’s campaign caused a social media frenzy, and social media activists had a field day on the days leading up to the inauguration. Below you will find an analysis of #inauguration […]

This January, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. Due to allegations of Trump and one of his cabinet picks (Rex Tillerson) having ties to Russia, there’s been a significant amount of discussion on social media.  Using Sysymos, we took a look at trends surrounding the hashtag “Russia” on Twitter. BREAKING […]

We chose the hashtag #WomensMarch which had 12,017,305 Twitter results. First, we ran a search for all different ways the Women’s March on Washington was talked about in January to find the most popular hashtag. View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com As you can see from the chart above, the two most popular […]