Twitter: 12 Million Inauguration Tweets Friday, 11.5 Million Women’s March Tweets Saturday
Twitter saw almost as many tweets about the women’s protest marches in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country Saturday as it did about Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Twitter saw almost as many tweets about the women’s protest marches in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country Saturday as it did about Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump.
The social network said in a Twitter Data tweet Friday afternoon that 12 million tweets were sent that day related to the inauguration, peaking at 58,000 tweets per minute at 12:02 p.m. ET.
12 million Tweets have been sent so far today related to the #Inauguration. Peaked at 58k Tweets sent per minute at 12:02pm EST. pic.twitter.com/bmqg1jdU8w
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) January 20, 2017
Early Sunday morning, Twitter Data tweeted that 11.5 million tweets with the #WomensMarch hashtag had been sent in the previous 24 hours.
In the past 24 hours, there have been 11.5 million #WomensMarch Tweets sent around the world pic.twitter.com/XZ3V4Bf0l3
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) January 22, 2017
Readers: Did you tweet about Trump’s inauguration and/or Saturday’s protest marches?
