On January 27th, The New York Times published a very interesting story on their website called “The Follower Factory”. One of the main issues that was discussed was the fact that many accounts on Twitter are engaged in buying followers. The New York Times had access to information that showed…

Nu het jaar 2017 bijna ten einde is, lijkt het een goed moment om eens terug te blikken naar de Nederlandstalige tweets die de meeste impact hadden, via het aantal retweets en likes. Het is uiteraard te verwachten dat de bekende Nederlanders op het gebied van sport, politiek en cultuur…

About 24 hours ago President Trump sent a tweet questioning why the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, called him old. This tweet was immediately retweeted and liked a lot. This is the tweet: At the time of writing this tweet was liked 476 thousand times, and retweeted…

President Trump likes to send tweets about the outstanding performance of the stock market. We did a search on Twitter for the word “stock” and found 22 tweets relating to the performance of the stock market since he was elected president. We did the same for Barack Obama, and found…

On August 31st, Justin Bieber was the second person, after Katy Perry, to reach 100 million followers on Twitter, a milestone that is truly remarkable. We want to celebrate this milestone with some historical information. Followers on Twitter. Justin Bieber registered his Twitter account on March 28th, 2009, which means…

Today, the 26th of August 2017, Conor McGregor will make his professional boxing debut in a match against Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas. Conor McGregor is an MMA world champion, while Floyd Mayweather is a former boxing world champion with a an impressive 49–0 record. According to bookmakers the odds…

Since @realDonaldTrump has become president he hardly replies anymore to tweets from others. This was different in the days before his presidency. In fact from all his tweets, about 2,500 are replies to other accounts. …

President Trump is an active user of Twitter, who has given us a very interesting archive of tweets. Frequently we see retweets of old tweets in our timelines, where his old tweets are put in the context of something he just said or did. On November 11th 2016, just after…

Last night, a recent tweet by Barack Obama about the events in Charlottesville became the most liked tweet on Twitter of all times. Some people may have asked themselves where this leaves the tweets by the current president of the United States. How does he rank in the list of…