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1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter
One-third of #BlackLivesMatter tweets mention police or police violence
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- 1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter
- Use of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag surged following the death of George Floyd
- Vast majority of all #BlackLivesMatter tweets have 10 or fewer retweets
- One-quarter of users produce around three quarters of #BlackLivesMatter tweets
- Majority of #BlackLivesMatter tweets express support
- One-third of #BlackLivesMatter tweets mention police or police violence
- The most common hashtags mentioned alongside #BlackLivesMatter have often referred to victims of police violence
- Other hashtags in #BlackLivesMatter tweets often mention protests, victims, support for the movement
- An image of the most retweeted #BlackLivesMatter tweet from the last 10 years which is a June 2020 post by the Korean pop group BTS
- Tweets that favor Black Lives Matter amass more retweets on average than those that oppose it
- Many #BlackLivesMatter tweets are no longer publicly accessible on Twitter
- Use of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag surged following the death of George Floyd
- One-quarter of users produce around three-quarters of #BlackLivesMatter tweets