Digital Digest
June 23, 2022
A Tweet by Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry generated more than 1.5 million likes on Twitter, becoming the most liked Tweet of the last week. The Trophy emoji became the third most used emoji as Twitter users tweeted about the Warriors’ seventh NBA title.
Both Father’s Day and Juneteenth — which fell on the same date this year — saw strong positive sentiment at 85% and 76%, respectively.
The Dude Perfect video “Real Life Invisibility Shield,” which examined a real life invisibility shield, was among the most popular videos on YouTube, generating more than four million views within 24 hours of posting.
Topics that captured the most interest of the digital public, as measured by the most accessed articles on Wikipedia, included: Father’s Day, Juneteenth, Stephen Curry, and Codename: Kids Next Door, an early 2000s animated series which recently garnered nostalgic attention after a social media post about the show went viral.
In order to build on its record levels of user activity, LinkedIn is looking to provide more engagement options with new comment options on Event pages and a new “Repost” option to amplify LinkedIn updates.
TikTok has been scrutinized at the potential of being used as a surveillance tool by the Chinese Government. They announced their complete migration to US user data servers. Now they will be using data servers at Oracle to ensure that US info remains separate from their Chinese parent company.
As the next step in strengthening the UK’s data protection plans, the government is looking to limit site cookie consents. Taking this stance is meant to give more transparency and flexibility to users, but many are concerned this may severely derail current data-flows and information gathering.