The Majestic Monitor Twitter Roundup (2020)
Tuesday 5th January 2021: Last year we launched Majestic Monitor, a new influencer discovery and analysis tool that looks at where influencers are linked to on the Internet. This gives a unique insight of which profiles are making a buzz outside of social media, as well as inside.
We launched with a suite of paid tools discovery and analysis, but we also released a new free tool, our Status History Explorer.
Status History Explorer maps every single Tweet we have seen on a timeline of when it was sent, as well as showing the top 10 most linked to Tweets of each month.
Covid-19, politics, and the sad passing of a King.
Covid-19 dominated the top 10 Tweets of the year.
We had President Donald Trump (at the time of writing) announcing that both himself and FLOTUS have tested positive for Covid-19, and a couple of follow up Tweets about their progress.
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
Also testing positive were UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and actor (and hopefully next James Bond) Idris Elba.
This morning I tested positive for Covid 19. I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far but have been isolated since I found out about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and be pragmatic. I will keep you updated on how I’m doing 👊🏾👊🏾 No panic. pic.twitter.com/Lg7HVMZglZ
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) March 16, 2020
Politics wise, we saw President-elect Joe Biden thank America for voting for him, Kanye West announcing his run for the presidency, and President Trump claiming that Mail-In voting will lead to an inaccurate and fraudulent election.
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
The last of President Trump’s Tweet to be included in the most linked-to Tweets of the year was his highly controversial statement which violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence after the death of George Floyd.
The sad passing of Chadwick Boseman was the 2nd most linked-to Tweet this year, and quickly became the most liked Tweet ever, with millions of people celebrating his life and the awesome person he was.
— Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) August 29, 2020
Serial Tweeters
The Twitter user with the most Tweets linked-to from websites this year is (unsurprisingly) President Donald Trump.
President Trump managed to have 52 Tweets appear in the top 120 Tweets of the year (the top 10 of each month), averaging 4.3 Tweets in the top 10 per month.
The next most prominent Tweeters in the top 10 for a month were:
| # | Account | Number of Top Tweets |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | @realDonaldTrump | 52 |
| 2 | @elonmusk | 6 |
| 3 | @CyberpunkGame | 3 |
| 4 | @Playstation | 2 |
| 5 | @JoeBiden | 2 |
| 6 | @KanyeWest | 2 |
| 7 | @BorisJohnson | 2 |
| 8 | @KamalaHarris | 2 |
| 9 | @jack | 2 |
| 10 | @jk_rowling | 2 |
If you are interested in just how many ‘linkworthy’ Tweets that President Trump has Tweeted last year, the answer to that is a just over twelve thousand!
| # | Account | Number of Top Tweets | Linked-to Tweets in 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @realDonaldTrump | 52 | 12,228 |
| 2 | @elonmusk | 6 | 3,707 |
| 3 | @CyberpunkGame | 3 | 397 |
| 4 | @Playstation | 2 | 2,161 |
| 5 | @JoeBiden | 2 | 2,845 |
| 6 | @KanyeWest | 2 | 685 |
| 7 | @BorisJohnson | 2 | 644 |
| 8 | @KamalaHarris | 2 | 1,338 |
| 9 | @jack | 2 | 344 |
| 10 | @jk_rowling | 2 | 430 |
Interestingly President Trump had the 4th highest number of Tweets linked to last year - with the Top 10 as follows:
| # | Account | Linked-to Tweets in 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | @wsj | 29,058 |
| 2 | @reuters | 26,844 |
| 3 | @abc | 12,759 |
| 4 | @realDonaldTrump | 12,228 |
| 5 | @nytimes | 12,059 |
| 6 | @cnn | 11,834 |
| 7 | @wwe | 11,141 |
| 8 | @nba | 8,435 |
| 9 | @guardian | 7,374 |
| 10 | @ap | 8,266 |
In Memoriam
In this section we will have a brief look the Tweets for some of the people who sadly passed away last year.
January saw the tragic accident that took the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, as well as 7 others. Former President Barack Obama’s touching statement afterwards captured the thoughts of millions of people across the world.
Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 26, 2020
In May, Ben Stiller’s tribute to his late father Jerry Stiller was in the top Tweets for that month.
I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes. He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad. pic.twitter.com/KyoNsJIBz5
— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) May 11, 2020
As mentioned at the start of the recap, Chadwick Boseman’s sad passing was the biggest news in August.
October was a month dominated by the news that President Trump has contracted Coronavirus, but was also when the passing of Eddie Van Halen was sadly announced by his son Wolf Van Halen.
— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020
In November, long running Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek sadly passed away.
Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Thank you, Alex. pic.twitter.com/Yk2a90CHIM
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 8, 2020
It’s not all doom and gloom
If you have read this far you may be thinking that nothing good made the list - but there has been some light out there which has made the most-linked to list.
Grimesz (and Elon Musk) welcomed X Æ A-12 into the world, and it was this Tweet explaining the meaning of the unique name which made it into the top Tweets of May.
•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
— ☘︎𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰࿎ (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
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(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)
Another couple to welcome a baby into this world was Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid back in September, with this announcement from Zayn.
Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful🙏🏽❤️to try put into words how i am feeling right now would be an impossible task. The love i feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding.Grateful to know her, proud to call her mine, & thankful for the life we will have together x pic.twitter.com/nvhfOkk2fw
— zayn (@zaynmalik) September 24, 2020
December 2020 also saw Elliot Page share with us all that he is trans, and that his pronouns are he/they. His words are both powerful and inspiring for all, but especially for the countless trans and non-binary people around the world.
— Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) December 1, 2020
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