The News Of The World Scandal: Watch How The Drama Unfolded on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] #NOTW

The scandal that led up to Rupert Murdoch’s decision to close Britain’s 168-year-old newspaper the News Of The World resonated with the Twitter community and generated an enormous amount of tweets and retweets around the #NOTW hashtag, peaking at over 70,000 per hour around 5pm on Thursday, July 7.

The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets that used the #NOTW hashtag, starting at 9.40am on the Thursday through to Monday, July 11, and produced a brilliant, streaming infographic that shows how the drama unfolded on Twitter as the news broke (and kept on breaking), showing all the people, newspapers and companies involved.

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(Source: The Guardian.)

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