Over 1 million tweets dedicated to the impact on the environment due to the Covid-19 emergency quarantine. This is the data released by Twitter on the occasion of the 50th Earth Day, the microblog also launches an emoji dedicated to the anniversary. "Between 2016 and 2019 in the United States - explains Twitter - a 173% increase in conversations regarding climate change was detected. At the same time, the volume of conversations on sustainability containing the words 'action' and 'innovation' is grew by 285%. While 20 million unique tweets on the environment were published for Earth Day in 2019 ".
"Over the past year, even in Italy the conversation on Twitter relating to the issues of climate change has involved more and more people - explains the platform - Among the most used hashtags we mention #ambiente, #ClimateChange and #clima, followed by # GretaThunberg, the young Swedish activist who has mobilized many students and citizens around the world to take part in the #FridaysForFuture every Friday.But, in addition to anniversaries such as #EarthDay, the attention of people who use Twitter is also addressed to more general topics such as #sustainability, #waste, #pollution and #plasticfree ".