Why is #HillaryForPrision trending?
Another day before the US election, another social media skirmish. #HillaryForPrision is the latest hashtag that Donald Trump supporters are promoting on Twitter.
And before you - as many others have - point out that they have misspelled prison, let me tell you that several accounts are claiming that this is to get around the fact that Twitter somehow stops the correctly spelled #HillaryForPrison from trending.
It is a common trope among Trump supporters that Twitter and mainstream media are working against their candidate.
Twitter wouldn't comment on this but the company has said before that the real reason topics don't trend is because they are not as popular as their supporters believe.
And although Twitter's algorithm takes more than just volume into account, just considering the number of times both hashtags have been tweeted over the past year would seem to bear this out.
#HillaryForPrision has hardly been mentioned in the last year but, today, it's been tweeted more than 28,000 times.
#HillaryForPrison, on the other hand, has been tweeted more than a million times over the last year. But the most it's ever been mentioned in a day is also today - at the lesser volume of more than 23,000 times.
So maybe it's not, as some are claiming, "because Communist twitter won't let #HillaryForPrison trend".
Source:BBC News
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