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Tech Industry Ready to Roll Up Its Sleeves to Fight Climate Change at Africa Tech Festival

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The Montreal Protocol was a significant statement of intent from the world’s leaders and marked an unprecedented turning point in the history of environmental protection and was ratified by every country in the world by 2008. For the full program to the 2022 AfricaCom schedule, visit tmt.knect365.com/africa-tech-festival/speakers-2022/.

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Presidential Social Media Campaigns: Obama Sees 2x More Engagement Than Romney

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The study examined the websites of the two campaigns in detail, as well as their postings on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – and the public reaction to that content. ” The difference was even more pronounced on Twitter, where Obama’s content received over 150,000 re-tweets vs. just 8,600 re-tweets for Romney’s posts.

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Cutting The Mustard With The Grey Poupon Facebook Society Of Good Taste

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And who can forget DijonGate of 2008, in which then-candidate Barack Obama ordered a burger, politely requesting mustard, and very specifically for “a spicy mustard or something like that, or a Dijon mustard , something like that.” percent in a saturated market of mostly oldsters) by rejecting wannabe Facebook fans was intriguing.

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China’s Sina Weibo Logs 119M Olympics-Inspired Tweets On Opening Day

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Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform in China, logged 119 million Olympics-related messages on the first day of the 2012 Olympic Games. How does this compare to Twitter? But Twitter did see 9.66 Nearly all posts came from China (114 million), with 2.4 million originating in the UK and 2.38 million from the US.

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The 2012 Political Conventions on Social Media: 13.5M Tweets Strong

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And only 22 million watched Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, give his acceptance speech, vs. Sarah Palin’s audience of 37 million in 2008. Granted, the 2008 election featured new and exciting elements, including Obama as the first African-American presidential nominee and Palin as a rising Republican superstar.