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Why Isn’t #demo2010 Trending On Twitter? « Student Activism

Why Isn’t #demo2010 Trending On Twitter? « Student Activism

Why Isn’t #demo2010 Trending On Twitter?

Today’s massive student protests in Britain have produced a huge amount of Twitter traffic, much of it using the #demo2010 hashtag. But although a number of tags and phrases connected with the demonstrations have trended in the UK over the course of the day, #demo2010 has been strangely — and entirely — absent from the country’s trending topics list.

Why that’s the case still isn’t clear, but a comparison of the relative frequency of tweets using that tag with