#MAGA, Hannity, the Wendy’s chicken nuggets guy, and 2017’s other Twitter-topping people and topics. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Dec. "#MAGA, Hannity, the Wendy’s chicken nuggets guy, and 2017’s other Twitter-topping people and topics." Nieman Journalism Lab. “American Music Awards Red Carpet Live” (11/19/17) “One Love Manchester Benefit Concert” (6/4/17) “Dreamhack Summer “ (6/19/17)***Multi-day event “Chasing Eclipse (The Weather Channel)” (8/21/17) “UK Election Night Results special live coverage (BBC)” (6/8/17) ![]() President Inauguration Day 2017 special live coverage (PBS) (1/20/17) It’s hosting BuzzFeed’s - quite good - AM to DM daily morning live show, and working with Bloomberg on a Twitter-native 24-hour news channel. In 2017, Twitter has been working hard to reposition itself as a place for news, and where news happens. Topping the most-tweeted activism-related hashtags are all the variations of #MakeAmericaGreatAgain and #Resist: Twitter wouldn’t share additional information such as total volume of RTs, mentions, or replies around each news outlet and respective top staffer, but a spokesperson confirmed that these calculations exclude tweets from known bots and Russia-linked trolls. No surprises here, that Sean Hannity gets brought up a lot, or David Fahrenthold, of do-your-work-in-public-on-twitter fame, is the Washington Post’s most tweeted most tweeted sports journalist of 2017? Jemele Hill. Here’s Twitter’s list of the top 10, along with the “top tweeted journalist/commentator at each” news organization. "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…" /InZ58zkoAmĪpril 10, 2017For news outlets, took the top spot when it came to appearing most frequently in tweets (the count includes replies and RTs), followed by CNN. ![]() Second place went to former president Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela tweet (1.7 million). The global honor went to - wait for it - the kid who really wanted a year’s worth of free Wendy’s chicken nuggets, and was told directly by the brand he needed 18 million retweets to secure the prize (he sadly got 3.6 million, but also the nuggets). (Other notables: Uneven or even bad enforcement of policies, congressional testimony, pushes into tweets were not, however, among the top most retweeted on Twitter in 2017, according to Twitter’s year-end data. president’s morning complaints and (un)diplomatic sparring, followed by, nesting ground for Russian troll accounts. The Twitter of 2017 might best be remembered as the platform for the U.S. LINK: ➚ | Posted by: Shan Wang | December 5, 2017
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