This week marks the 10th anniversary of when Crimson Hexagon started collecting Twitter data for social analysis way back in 2008.
Below are some highlights and light-hearted insights from the last decade of the Twitter-sphere:
- The most liked tweet came from US President Barack Obama on August 13, 2017 about racial equality. It had 4.58M likes
- The most retweeted tweet came from Carter Wilkinson, asking for retweets to get a year’s supply of chicken nuggets. It spurred the popular hashtag #Nuggs4Carter
- The most tweeted emoji is the ‘crying laughter face’, which is twice as popular as ‘love struck eyes’ which sits in second place
- ‘crying laughter face’ emoji has been tweeted 12.4B times in the last decade
- Katy Perry remains at the number one spot for most followers, with 110M
- #LoveWins, following the marriage equality ruling in the USA in 2015, was the most popular social movement of the last decade, with a peak of 10M per week
Please find a full blog post here,
