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Connections, April Fools’, and Emojis, Oh My! Here’s What Social Media Users Had to Say About the April 1st Installment of the Popular New York Times Puzzle Game.

On April 1st, the day known as April Fools’ Day where many people commit to pulling pranks, making jokes, and other hijinks, many people took pause when they logged in The New York Times website to play the daily Connections game. The game which is premised around grouping 16 seemingly unrelated words into four groups […]

Contestants Talk and So Do Social Media Users. Listing to Social Media Conversations Around the First Four Episodes of Survivor 46.

Season 46 of Survivor premiered on February 28th. Now, four episodes into the season, conversations about the show are becoming plentiful online. In total, #Survivor46 has been used over 73 thousand times and reached over 184 million users since premiere day. Obviously, conversations using #Survivor46 peak on Wednesdays, the days episodes air, but each episode has generated a […]

An Immersive Experience Gone Very Wrong: Listing to the Conversations Around the Not So Sweet Willy’s Chocolate Experience Event in Glasgow, Scotland.

What do Vincent van Gogh, Friends, and ice cream all have in common? They all have some form of immersive experience modeled after them to capitalize on the craze of taking audiences and placing them into their respective worlds, whatever that might look like. Recently, one new immersive experience started make rounds on social media but […]

Artists Sing and Grammys, Talk? Listening to the Social Media Conversations Around the 66th Grammy Awards.

Sunday, February 4th was the day of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, a ceremony dedicated to celebrating and honoring the accomplishments of those in the music industry from the year prior. With surprise appearances, album announcements, and more, there was certainly a lot to be discussed on social media. Generally speaking, across all platforms since Sunday morning, the […]