We’ve all seen the hashtags out there that let you know, Today is National Blank Day. Celebrating puppies, pizza, boyfriends --- we’ve seen it all. They’re certainly pervasive, sometimes frivolous, often fun.
One wonders who is the arbiter of such things. This is a great example of how Twitter can make clear what is or isn’t without any central authority saying so. If it didn’t get recorded on Twitter, it didn’t happen, simple as that.
So, who determines what this day is? Sometimes it’s corporations celebrating a favorite product. Or movements raising awareness for a cause. Several sites maintain the official list, and there is some overlap, but all don’t quite agree. So instead we turned to Twitter.
We looked at millions of tweets from 2017, particularly hashtags that end in the word ‘day.’ They start with a pound sign and end in the word ‘day’ because sometimes it’s National Blank Day, or World Blank Day, or International Blank Day.
We found a few thousand of them. Here are the top 30 overall, plus a chronological list of 277 for the year.
See which ones you recognize, because they’re all real -- they happened on Twitter.
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