If any researchers interested in social sciences and social media platforms are interested, I'm collecting a dataset on kobe with Twitter data. From what I can see, this is the single largest celebrity death that I've seen on Twitter. The volume is just unreal.
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It will take me around 4-5 days just to collect all the data, but there are sustained volumes approaching 1,000-1,500 tweets per second after the news broke on his death.
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Never have I seen every single trending topic be about one thing (Kobe). All of them!!!
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