29 million tweets posted about Sewol ferry tragedy
Social affairsApr 13, 2017
Twitter Korea said Thursday that a total of 29 million tweets have been generated about the Sewol ferry sinking since April 2014.More than 15 million tweets were posted in a year right after the accident. From April 2015 to April 2016, the number of the related tweets stood at 5 million.(Yonhap)The volume of the related tweets increased again from the end of 2016 with the ouster of the former President Park Geun-hye. In the year from April 2016, the number of the tweets surged to 9 million. Twee