Death of Muhammad Ali Shakes Up Facebook, Twitter World

The death of former heavyweight boxing champion and cultural icon Muhammad Ali last Friday jolted the sports world, along with Facebook and Twitter.

The death of former heavyweight boxing champion and cultural icon Muhammad Ali last Friday jolted the sports world, along with Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook said in a blog post by Evan Shugerman, who works on sports partnerships for the social network and Instagram, and data scientist Dustin Cable that in the first 24 hours after Ali’s death, 48 million users were responsible for more than 110 million interactions (posts, comments, likes, shares) on Facebook.

According to Shugerman and Cable, the countries with the most Ali-related conversations during that period were:

  1. U.S.
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