What else happened today on Twitter? A QAnon-promoted hashtag -- #Obamagate -- has been trending for effectively the entire day. It peaked at #1 in the United States, and is still being aggressively promoted by QAnon accounts, at 1.7 million tweets and counting. https://twitter.com/Millermena/status/1259714345489088517">https://twitter.com/Millermen...

What& #39;s unique about this case? Like many other partisan hashtags, it inspired a competing (anti-Trump) hashtag trend, which peaked at #4 but which has now dropped off. Unlike many other partisan hashtags, however, this one& #39;s still trending at full force with its initial meaning.

As is the case when Trump tweets out a hashtag, it will often peak in regional trends by virtue of journalists, bluechecks, and opposing political partisans amplifying it with a different message. But in this case, #ObamaGate is untainted, with wall-to-wall positive promo.

When I started this thread 10 minutes ago, Twitter showed 1.7 million tweets on the hashtag. It now shows over 2 million. I& #39;m not familiar enough with Twitter metrics to say whether this is indicative of latency on Twitter& #39;s end, or indicative of 300,000 new tweets being shared.