{"id":67399,"date":"2018-02-19T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=67399"},"modified":"2018-02-19T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:03:12","slug":"interactive-nba-twitter-buzz-during-all-star-weekend-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/interactive-nba-twitter-buzz-during-all-star-weekend-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive: NBA Twitter buzz during All-Star Weekend 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jourdan Kerl, Daniel Comer, Jonathan Skinner and Connor Yahn<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The NBA has placed an emphasis on Twitter involvement since the social media boom of the mid-to-late 2000s. The league \u2013 which has more than 27 million Twitter followers (three million more than the NFL) \u2013 is known as the paragon of social media consciousness in professional sports, a distinction aided by its star power and international prominence.<\/p>\n<p>In this interactive timeline, we\u2019ve drawn from the Twitter profiles of athletes, teams and fans from around the world to document some of the &#8220;Twitterverse&#8221; highlights and reactions to NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe src='https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1yDePE8LcCGfg_TG-JGwbv6fTwU4nQWXaKRyl2k8Oj-0&#038;font=Default&#038;lang=en&#038;initial_zoom=2&#038;height=850' width='100%' height='850' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Snapshot from Tweetdeck of tweets posted during the weekend. 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