Tag: Twitter
#IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a dangerously polarised debate
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The Victorian government’s handling of the state’s second coronavirus wave attracted massive Twitter attention, both in support of and against the state’s...
The story of #DanLiedPeopleDied: how a hashtag reveals Australia’s ‘information disorder’ problem
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At midday on August 12 2020, the hashtag #DanLiedPeopleDied started trending on Twitter. By evening it had attracted over 10,000 tweets.
The hashtag...
Sunday essay: Twitter and the way of the hashtag
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Perhaps no single character has been as iconic a symbol of Twitter as the now-ubiquitous hashtag.
The syntax of the hashtag has...
Trump’s Twitter tantrum may wreck the internet
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US President Donald Trump, who tweeted more than 11,000 times in the first two years of his presidency, is very upset with Twitter.
Last week...
Twitter is banning political ads – but the real battle for democracy is with Facebook and Google
Twitter should get credit for its sensible move, but the
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Finally, some good news from...