We are approaching the last days of the year 2020. While most will be happy to leave this year behind, it is also worth looking back at the highlights of the past 12 months. It probably feels like there were no highlights, but there were definitely! In this article I look back at the most special, beautiful and emotional highlights of social media in 2020. Will you read and watch along?
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In 2020, everyone tweeted a lot, and that is also clearly reflected in the figures. According to Twitter, a tweet about the pandemic is sent out every 45 milliseconds (!). This makes #Coronavirus the most used hashtag of 2020.
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter also reached unprecedented levels, peaking at 8.8 phone number library million tweets on May 28. But more remarkable than the volume is the number of people engaged in the conversation. A Hootsuite analysis found that of mentions across Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr and other sources, more than 18 million unique users used the hashtag. That’s more than double the number of people who used the hashtag in 2016.