The graphs and charts used to make these conclusions were all collected from an analysis of social media activity surrounding the NFL playoffs in January. We used Sysomos to analyze the use of the hashtag “#nflplayoffs” at that time. From looking at the social media activity it is interesting to see that most of their […]
Read more "NFL Playoffs Social Media Activity"Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, more commonly known as “El Chapo,” is a Mexican drug lord. He heads the Sinaloa Cartel, which is responsible for roughly one quarter of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. from Mexico. After escaping a maximum security prison in Mexico, El Chapo was recaptured on January 8, 2016, as seen by the below tweet. […]
Read more "The Day El Chapo Was Caught…Again"This year’s election season has been one of bold campaign moves, and not from just one candidate in particular. It’s been an election full of hashtags – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, #ImWithHer, #FeeltheBern and now, #NeverTrump. Bernie Sanders has been neck and neck with Donald Trump in the hashtag game, with several of his being popular campaign tools. […]
Read more "Behind the Bern"It is the 88th Annual Academy Awards and Hollywood still has a diversity issue. Leading up to the Oscars this past Sunday, many wondered if this particular stigma would be addressed. Sure enough, host Chris Rock, started his witty monologue with sharp quips associating the award show to “White People’s Choice Awards.” The trending hashtag now […]
Read more "“White People’s Choice Awards” #OscarsSoWhite"Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera is one of the most notorious and successful drug traffickers in the world today. As the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Guzman oversees an organization with a reported $3 billion in yearly revenue. Following two previous arrests and escapes from Mexican federal prisons, El Chapo most recently escaped in July […]
Read more "How the World Reacted to El Chapo’s Arrest"Alan Rickman, an English actor and director and important part in the extremely influential Harry Potter series passed away on January 14th, 2016 due to pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. Most known for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, his death was truly upsetting to the large Harry Potter fan […]
Read more "The Influence of #AlanRickman’s Death in the Twitter World"The hashtag we chose was #HappyNewYear. Unsurprisingly, the hashtag peaked on January first, with over one million mentions on that day alone. The number of mentions plummeted the next day, before flat lining around January 10th. View post on imgur.com While it makes sense that the number of mentions would be highest on the […]
Read more "Evaluating the Hashtag #HappyNewYear"View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com We analyzed #Oscarssowhite. There was a spike in conversation about this topic between January 12th – 16th, because the Oscar nominees were announced on January 14th. Many people were using the words Oscars, black, white, Hollywood, diversity, academy, nominations, actors and snub. Most of the conversation around the […]
Read more "#Oscarssowhite"He used to be virtually silent on social media, but Kanye West has taken an apparent liking to Twitter. After misinterpreting a Tweet as a personal attack from hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa, West went on an infamous rant on January 27, 2016 that oddly dissed, and complimented Khalifa as a style icon with the viral hashtag, #WizWearsCoolPants. West’s Tweets […]
Read more "Kanye West and His Twitter Fingers"#WasteHisTime2016 trended in early January of 2016 when women took to Twitter to devise ways to waste a man’s time and break his heart. This hashtag allowed women to “give men a taste of their own medicine” and show what it would look like if women treated men the same way they treated women. Some […]
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