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  • The subjects who agitated the social network Twitter over a calendar year are (subjectively) listed by a French user.

  • The entries in the 2020 table show that the year has been rich in absurd events and cookie-cutter statements.

  • The trend is the proliferation of ephemeral topics and the rejuvenation of new "twittos" (Twitter users).

YouTube has its annual Rewind (except this year, because of the Covid) and Twitter has its “Indignation Table”.

Created by the @Hernstburgler account and partially posted, this Excel spreadsheet is full of topics that have stirred the network.

This is obviously not a "best of" from last year, but a subjective summary of the events which aroused emotions, often negative, in the media space.

Here is the 2020 edition of this very handcrafted painting by quoisindignetonaujourdhui.xlsx.

A beautiful and boring year anyway.

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- ernst burgler (@Hernstburgler) January 2, 2021

2020, absurd year

The entries in the table show how the year 2020 has been full of absurd events and sweeping statements.

Before the arrival of the Covid, Twitter will have been marked by the racist video of the employees of the French Slip, the interview with Carlos Ghosn by Léa Salamé, the death of Cédric Chouviat during a police check or the release of Patrick Balkany.

Screenshot of the interview with Carlos Ghosn by Léa Salamé, January 8, 2020 in Beirut © France Inter

The months of February and March are occupied by the controversy of the Caesar given to Roman Polanski and several anti-feminist quotes.

Then comes the moment of confinement and its procession of incredible outings.

Sibeth Ndiaye who asks university professors to go pick strawberries to support farmers in need of labor, BMFTV which headlines "the government is launching a site for those who have trouble with the Internet", Le Parisien qui conducts a survey to ask its readers "if they believe in chloroquine" and of course the statements on masks, deemed ineffective or unnecessary contrary to what the scientific consensus affirms.

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The acceleration of indignation

While some days are missing from the table, others have multiple entries.

Thus on May 11, the official date of the first deconfinement, it is the queues in front of Zara or Fnac stores that seem to shock the Internet.

But the author justifies this lack of regularity by a new phenomenon.

“It is more and more difficult to fill this table.

There's not a single thing that goes on repeat - like a few years ago - that runs all day, but lots of little things that will run for an hour before moving on.

This fragmentation of public opinion can be explained by several factors.

The year has clearly been rich in twists and turns as shitstorms have multiplied.

But it is also necessary to count on the diversification of the Twitter audience and in particular the arrival of a younger audience whose hashtags and tweets are regularly trending and denote with the more "classic" users of Twitter, from the media world. , tech or politics.

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The original article was written by David-Julien Rahmil and published on the DNA website.

  • Coronavirus

  • Roman Polanski

  • Cedric Chouviat

  • Social networks

  • Society

  • Twitter