The official announcement of the Queen’s passing has been shared almost a million times.
The death of Elizabeth II on September 8 has not gone unnoticed on social networks. Data from the specialized company Visibrain shows that a record of simultaneous tweets has been broken: up to 1834 per second. According to the continuous news channel BFMTV, this is a historical stream. The sequence would have been 1.7 times more commented than the 2018 World Cup final!
And 24h, «20,428,838 tweets about the disappearance of the most famous monarch in the worldwere published, as Visibrain explains. A total that adds up the occurrences of several hashtags like #ElizabethII, #QueenElizabeth or even #LondonBridge.
A publication goes around the world
In this continuous stream of messages, one of them garnered more interactions than all the others. This is the message shared by the official account of the royal family: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen Consort will stay at Balmoral tonight and return to London tomorrow».
This short statement has been shared 950,000 times and “liked” by nearly 2.5 million users. A message that does not enter the list of the 30 most popular publications in the history of the social network.
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