quinta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2014

2014 As Told By Hashtags

The year is opening to a close and as it is prevalent for many sites to run a summation of a biggest events to occur in 2014, we guess we’d do ours, with a bit of a difference. In this post we will be looking during 2014 as told by hashtags. These are a topics that were abuzz in Twitterverse around a year, we competence have used some of these hashtags yourself.



The list is, of course, not downright – we can usually do so many in a singular write adult – yet we wish to have prisoner a crux of how 2014 was with these hashtags. Here’s to a improved year in 2015.


Recommended Reading: Hashtagging In Social Networking – A Guide To Using Them Right


#Sochi2014


February 7-23, 2014: The 2014 Winter Olympics began on Feb 6 in Sochi, Russia and eventually became a many costly Olympics in history, with losses amounting to US$51 billion. Controversies and problems riddled a eventuality as documented by athletes and members of a press underneath a hashtag #SochiProblems and #SochiStrays.








#Oscars2014


March 3, 2014: This year, a Oscars pennyless Twitter with an epic selfie.




The host, Ellen DeGeneres, who done a selfie happened, also systematic pizza to be delivered, and sloping a pizza smoothness male definitely generously. On a red carpet, Benedict Cumberbatch photobombed U2.




#MH370


March 8, 2014: Even as we are entering 2015, there is still no word about a predestine of moody MH370, solely that authorities are still acid for it. While firm for Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with some-more than 200 passengers and organisation members on board, a craft left yet a trace, sparking an singular vast multinational bid to find a plane.








#Ebola


March 25, 2014: It was announced that there was an dispute of Ebola, a singular yet lethal virus, with cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone. However, it was usually on Sep 30 that #Ebola started trending when Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed in a United States. To date, 17, 145 cases have been reported and 6, 070 people have died of a disease, a largest Ebola widespread so far.








#BringBackOurGirls


April 15, 2014: 276 girls were kidnapped by militant organisation Boko Haram from their propagandize in Chibok, Borno during Nigeria. The Twitter hashtag discuss was to vigour authorities into holding quick movement opposite a terrorists and to move a girls behind to safety.




First started by Ibrahim M. Abdullahi, a hashtag eventually snowballed as several people in Nigeria began to collect it adult as a approach to surprise a universe about a predicament of a girls. Advocaters for a hashtag embody Malala Yosafzai, Hilarry Clinton, and Michelle Obama.






#Sewol


April 16, 2014: En track from Incheon to Jeju, a South Korean packet with 476 passengers, many propagandize students, capsized and sunk. Only 174 were rescued. To date, 295 bodies have been recovered, with 7 still missing. The tragedy stirred inhabitant cheer for a captain of a packet to be prosecuted, for deserting a ship. In November, it was reported that he transient a genocide chastisement and was condemned to a 36-year judgment for bullheaded negligence.








#YesAllWomen


May 23, 2014: Elliot Rodger, 22 killed 6 people and harmed 13 others on a murdering debauch nearby University of California, Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, California. He also shot himself. His proclivity for his actions came to light in a array of Youtube videos detailing his loathing for women for scorning him and for group who stood in his way. This stirred women to share their stories of harrassment, passionate assault, and fear online by a hashtag #YesAllWomen. It sparked serve discuss when group responded with a hashtag #NotAllMen.








#RIPMayaAngelou


May 28, 2014: Celebrated author and producer Maya Angelou upheld divided peacefully during home. Best famous for her book “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, Angelou was widely regarded as an outspoken and distinguished voice for black people and women. Many took to Twitter to compensate their respects.








#WorldCup2014


June 12-July 13, 2014: The 20th FIFA World Cup in Brazil was another vital sports eventuality of a year, that saw riots and protests over crime and ballooning costs for behind construction of facilities. During a games, Twitter was abuzz with US goalkeeper Tim Howard’s extraordinary 16 saves, Luis Suarez’s bite, Brazil’s terrible opening on home dirt and Germany assembly Argentina for a finals, both watchful to move home a Cup.








In a end, a Germans emerged winning as this celebratory selfie shows:




#GazaUnderAttack


July 7, 2014: The attribute between Israel and Gaza has always been hilly yet this year, dispute erupted when Israel retaliated with Operation Protective Edge when Hamas launched rockets during them. Since then, amicable networks has been abundant with cinema of casualties and death, articles detailing a conflict, and declarations of oneness on both sides.








#IceBucketChallenger


July 14, 2014: The Ice Bucket Challenge dominated amicable feeds for weeks as luminary after luminary dunked themselves with ice H2O in an bid to lift recognition for ALS (amyotrophic parallel sclerosis), a illness that affects neuro cells in a mind and spinal cord, heading to paralysis. By a finish of August, a plea helped lift $100 million for research.



#MH17


July 17, 2014: It’s a tough year for Malaysia’s inhabitant carrier. Around 4 months after a MH370 tragedy, Malaysian Airlines moody MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was reportedly shot down from a atmosphere while drifting over a Ukraine-Russia border. All 283 passengers and 15 organisation members on house perished in a crash. Retrieval of a passengers’ bodies were hampered by a dispute function in a area yet eventually a bodies were identified and sent home for burial. To date, 6 bodies remained unidentified.








#RIPRobinWilliams


August 11, 2014: The universe distressed when news about Robin Williams, dear actor and comedian, being found upheld in his home strike a air. Widely famous for his iconic film roles and his comedic genius, tributes poured all over Twitter as fans paid their honour to Williams around a hashtag #RIPRobinWilliams. The comfortless resources surrounding William’s genocide lighted speak and discussions about basin and suicide.








#Ferguson


August 12, 2014: Protests over a genocide of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on Aug 9 is still ongoing today. Many on Twitter called for probity for Brown who died after being shot by military officer, Darren Wilson, on tip of highlighting a emanate of how black people are racially profiled and treated with guess automatically. #IfTheyGunnedMeDown carried photos of themselves and asked a doubt of how a media would use their photos to form them.








Protests took a spin for a worse when a military force motionless to confront a protestors instead of questioning Wilson. The media were not spared possibly when they were arrested for doing their job.


By a finish of November, a outcome came in: Wilson walks. This stirred dispute and fueled some-more protests that now embody a deaths of Tamir Rice and Eric Garner.








#Gamergate


August 16, 2014: Gamergate that was ostensible to be a quarrel for ethics in videogames broadcasting incited into a blatant conflict on women reporters in a industry. Indie diversion developer, Zoe Quinn became a initial aim when her ex-boyfriend indicted her of intrigue on him, in his blog post. This grown into a myth that she was sleeping around to get coverage for her game. The occurrence escalated to a indicate of misogynistic attacks on distinguished women in gaming and cocktail culture, including Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu causing them to leave their homes for safety.








#RIPJoanRivers


September 4, 2014: After complications from a throat proccedure, comedienne Joan Rivers upheld divided during age 81. Known for her pointy tongue and humor, Rivers was never one to reason behind on her comments or her self-deprecating jokes. Her genocide was another blow to a comedy industry.








#Indyref


September 18, 2014: Scotland votes on either they turn an independant state or not. Referring to a Scottish Independence Referendum, #Indyref generated serve hashtags such as #BetterTogether, #ScotDecides, #VoteYes, #VoteNo (to name yet a few) for a month heading adult to and on polling day itself. In a end, Scotland ‘voted’ to stay.








#Bendgate


September 19, 2014: The iPhone motionless to grow vast with a introduction of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 and yet within days of a launch, #iPhone6 was shortly transposed by #Bendgate. Horror stories about a slim and vast phone tortuous in pockets began to aspect and a foe motionless to jumped in on a movement with their possess jokes about tortuous and flexing phones.








#UmbrellaRevolution


September 26, 2014: Starting out as #OccupyCentral, a critique was to call for China to give a people of Hong Kong their right to elect and opinion for their possess leader. University students and their peers took to a streets call news, discussions and footage of their conduct. The protests became aroused when military shot rubber bullets and rip gas during a protestors call them to defense themselves with umbrellas, bringing about a #UmbrellaRevolution.










2014 As Told By Hashtags
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