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The Most Important US Events Of 2014, According To Twitter
When it comes to social networks, Instagram is where the world's best food photographers reside, Facebook is where "cool parents" and ad-clicking robots can be found, while Twitter is where the up to the minute super-informed, sophisticated intelligentsia hides. At least according to Twitter. So what did said sophisticated audience find to be the most important and talked about American events of the year? The following infographic from Echelon Insights gives the answer:
The top 10 US stories of 2014 were:
- Ferguson
- Midterms
- Ebola
- Israel
- Iraq
- Russia/Ukraine
- Sterling/Clippers
- Guns
- Obamacare
- Marijuana
What is more interesting is that the top 2 most talked items were defined as such by Liberal Activists, where the topic dearest to Conseratives' hearts, Guns, was only 8th in the combined ranking.
Which begs the question: while the media may or may not have a liberal bias, it does appear that the main talking points in at least media distribution outlet are set by those a liberal bent. Maybe simply because they have far more time to retweet and engage in meaningless Internet debate?
Meaningless internet speculation aside, here is how 2014 progressed through the eyes of Twitter users.
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'Russia invades Ukraine"
The propaganda was successful.
Right, NSA spying was not in focus, propaganda was successful.
The best propaganda allows the target to retain the illusion that he has come to a predetermined conclusion all on his own.
ZH NATION, HOW DOES FEEL NOW TO BE FREE FROM THE MSM VIRUS ?
The days of "MOAR" are numbered
It's a big club and you ain't in it BITCHEZ
This list can't be accurate.
I don't see 'Kim Kardashian' or 'Jessica Alba's Diapers' anywhere...
You can lead a sheep to water, but you can't make it smoke pot.
If you repeat it enough people will take anything as true. Still cannot believe people follow elections. Just wait when the world stops honoring the USA credit card (UST).
You don't have to. They've already been smoking it for decades.
i had the same conclusion about the best propoganda being that. but , wait, i thought i had come up with that idea all on my own.
too meta.
Exactly.
Government corruption should be 1-5.
Propaganda was successful.
I'm referring to ALL governments.
You think Echelon would finger itself? Who do you think it is Keith Alexander? Buh da buh! Thank you, you've been a great audience. I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Russia invades Ferguson
I am looking foward to the day that Obama puts a saddle on that Wookie and rides her into the sunset.
I see the TPTB are getting their "divide and conquer" money's worth with the liberals out of the Koch Brothers meme. So easy a caveman could do it.
And yet, no one thinks to investigate Soros or Maurice Strong. Total media capture.
football and pop news.
Ebola & the Kalifornia drought.
One was manic depressive hyperbole until a PR Czar was appointed by King Obama so the media could back to sucking its thumb and the other got water boarded by a decent rain shower right off the front page...lol.
Next! ;-)
"When I became a man I put away childesh things."
I let the Mrs have mine - she knows what to do with it ;-)
Where's Jason Beeper ?
Leave Britney alone!
Oh, shit. I think we did;)
"Shoes! Let's get some shoes!"
Dash back and grab the spelling book you dropped ;}.
i thought 2014 was the year of the butt. i hope 2015 is the year of the little kitty in the triangle valley of love.
This is a well designed, uninteresting infographic.
You forgot meaningless;)
Its meaninglessness is the message!
I still have never tweeted (twat?) and know no one that ever has. I don't know what a hashtag is for.
the hashtag as its now called used to be the little symbol between Ph (#) and the number ahh the days of landlines and rotary phones and only 3 networks of teevee propaganda ..... "The problem with progress is that it lasted to long"
A hashtag is the thing on the package that you're supposed to read so you don't accidentally buy the wrong kind of hash.
Hmmm there's a wrong kind? Black brown or red ah and yes blonde
We'll also consider nude and shaved.
There are 2 kinds of hash....
Good hash, and acceptable hash
Beer, likewise - Excluding American 'beer', of course.
US beer - like having sex in a canoe - Fucking close to water.
I like acceptable bottom branch shit myself, as long as it was grown right, but when it comes to beer I only drink micros so I say cheers with a Sierra Nevada.
Hashtag is used as shorthand for pounds. As in Lbs. #.
Certainly true if you are talking about a bow's draw weight.
You're sharp.
I don't know what a sliderule is for -- Sam Cooke
You mean "Pants up don't loot" isn't a category?
Partisan sound bites are not 'News'.
'Insiders and Activits' are not 'Reporters'.
Twitter = MSM of the ADD, the ADD-led, and the addled.
11. Kourtney & Khloe take the Hamptons.
Look up 'Hampton' and Cockney rhyming slang!
I'm seeing colors, man, they're like all running together, ... do we have any more Doritos?
MSM polls and Google/Twitter rankings increasingly reflect the success/failure of the MSM propaganda's ability to distract from the public mind, not what is fundamentally important.
Proves Gruber was right, eh.
"Proves Gruber was right "
Where 'social media' addicts who conceive the sound bites echoing in their chosen vacuum chambers defines reality are concerned, unfortunately:Yes.
Gruberization seems to come natural to Merikans these days, unfortunately.
Better news selections than the tv news makes
"...and Barack Obama is the most admired man in America. I don’t know what that says about our nation..."
umm...maybe the majoriity has now become the minority?
where did Reggie rank?
where did Reggie rank?
"Which begs the question: while the media may or may not have a liberal bias,..."
lol...I think thats indisputable.
"...it does appear that the main talking points in at least media distribution outlet are set by those a liberal bent."
No doubt...Squirrels!!!
"Maybe simply because they have far more time to retweet and engage in meaningless Internet debate?"
And to argue over fawty cents at Mickey D's';-)
Yaz,
Here we are, blazing new trails in Supermarket Tabloid Journalism.
Oh look, which Celeb got fat/arrested/knocked up/a tummy tuck...?
meaningless internet debate?
are we just wasting our time reading and commenting on what others say here at ZH?
Yes.
The progs lost so theres nothing left to debate plus its halftime ;-)
The game ended when oil went to $50 and gold didn't budge. We're in the locker room pouring champagne.
Who knew they had time to do all this aren't they keeping up with their selfies?
We're SCREWED.
all i see is proof obama phones come with web access.
ebola #3 my ass
number 1 bitchez
Weaponized Ebola did not make the list, go figure.
The LA freeways slowed by another 1 mph because you bitchez played on your fart fones.
Gold Bitchez...I pick up your trash
Social media - the price of everything and the value of nothing, to paraphrase.
DavidC
It's what you call 'making news', or 'shaping the news'
What about Ending the Fed? Interest rate suppession? "Market" manipulation?
Social media....
Something for people who'd like to have a life, but don't want to make the effort.
Not ONE mention of the NSA.
Fuck me.
Edited for your well being.
Next year, 40 Cents will be at the top, most Tweeted.
?? Smaller version of 50 Cent
just shows what the sheople are concerned about sure isn't their privacy or the sudden drop in oil...
Where is 4th amendment, 10th amendment, ending Federal Reserve, disasterous monetary policy, Sino-Russian partnerships, zionist public policy, fast and furious, IRSgate, Gruber, Corzine, ETF, Wall Street Fraud, etc., etc.
Nowhere? I call bullshit on that list, or we truly are a nation of morons.
We don't use those anymore.
- Yours Truely,
A Nation of Idiots
Open the pod bay doors please, Hal.
If that list is accurate, and the linked to article here is accurate, then the US is in for a ruder awakening by order of magnitude than I had ever expected
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/fpid1fhd6nv59/China_Russia_Double_Helix
Not pointing out the obvious, but maybe the reason that Ferguson ranked so highly is that Twitter users are disproportionately black.
"Among young adults, according to a September Pew survey, 40% of African American Internet users aged 18-29 use Twitter, compared with 28% of whites in the same demographic."
What about the millions who see no need for a twitter account? Do they have a voice any longer?
Let's see some brightly colored graphics about the top ten things that infants have nightmares about.
It would be just as relevant.
Meh
All I see is a TWTR short to zero
"...the top 2 most talked items were defined as such by Liberal Activists, where the topic dearest to Conseratives' hearts, Guns, was only 8th in the combined ranking"
This reflects the ongoing drift towards progressive socialism that's been underway for decades in the West. It has infiltrated every nook and cranny of government including Agencies of The State, MSM, society and now dominates public policy.
Facebook and Twitter are simply examples of the mindless garbage that's spewed out to provide the mindless hoards with a mechanism to let them coalesce into equally mindless entities of group-think.
Here's another mind-boggling propaganda entry from that chart:
[Mar 2014] "Russia Invades Crimea"
Did I miss that?
Seems like people are content and entertained except for the fear of nuclear annihilation.