#COVID19, #BlackLivesMatter top Twitter themes in 2020

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Published Monday, December 7, 2020
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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES -- The coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement topped the list of conversation topics on Twitter in a tumultuous year, the messaging platform said Monday.

In a summary of trends, Twitter said the hashtag #COVID19 and other variations were tweeted nearly 400 million times, while #StayHome was the third biggest hashtag of the year.

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