Historic Tweets
Social Media History
Bold Terms
Gone Viral
Netspeak
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Wyclef Jean @wyclef: Please text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to YELE HAITI. Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help..please help if you can.
What is the Haiti Earthquake of 2010?
100
The largest online campaign movement, which resided on Facebook in 2012
What is Kony 2012?
100
Signals which create the context in which messages should be interpreted
What are contextualization cues?
100
This Oscar host teamed up with Samsung to achieve the most retweeted tweet in Twitter History. "But first, lemme take a selfie!"
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
100
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What is I love you so much?
200
@ TheWrightStuff: My brother Orville just launched in our powered aircraft @KittyHawk!
What is the birth of flight?
200
The first of these was used in August of 2007, and due to its prominence, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June of 2014.
What is the hashtag?
200
Signals actions in text based communication by describing them between asterisks. *hugs*
What is emoting?
200
This potato chip company asked it fans to "#DoUsAFlavor" in a social media campaign to invent their next flavors of potato chips?
What is Lays?
200
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What is whatever?
300
@TommyJeff: Me and my boys out here at the #ContinentalCongress! #CatchYouLaterKingGeorge
What is the Signing of the Declaration of Independence?
300
If you thought 140 characters was challenging, try this video clip service, purchased by Twitter and launched in January of 2013. You’ve got 6 seconds.
What is vine?
300
Creating relationships between different groups of people or 'clusters' in a network.
What is Bridging?
300
This recent viral social media campaign is estimated to have raised approximately $21.7 million for researching a cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease
What is #ALSIceBucketChallenge?
300
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What is how about you?
400
@HerbMorrison: "OH THE HUMANITY!"
What is the Hindenburg disaster?
400
Go ahead and find out anything you want to know about your favorite celebrity with this on this social media site
What is AMA on Reddit?
400
The amount of effort, time, or other resources expended in making a transaction such as sending a message.
What are transaction costs?
400
Actor and director Zach Braff recently funded this movie entirely through Kickstarter, an online crowd-funding website.
What is Wish I was Here?
400
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What is call the cell?
500
@IronHorse: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth, #Blessed
What is the Lou Gehrig Retirement Speech?
500
Facebook rolled out this option in November of 2010. Hope you liked it, but it’s ok if you didn’t.
What is Unlike pages?
500
Connections in a social network which are originally weak but eventually end up becoming important or useful, often because they serve the function of connecting disparate groups
What are Strong Weak Ties?
500
At a recent speech to the UN, actress Emma Watson announced the start of this campaign, aiming to achieve worldwide gender equality. Within two weeks of its launch, the hashtag had been used in 1.1 million tweets by 750,000 users.
What is #HeForShe?
500
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What is parent standing by my side?
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