Here's what happened when #Carex started trending on Twitter

After Carex started trending on Twitter today, we ran a Twitter analysis to see exactly what happened. #Carex here are your best bits.

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Here's what happened when #Carex started trending on Twitter

Last month a photo of a bag of tea landed both the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Yorkshire Tea in hot water with incensed Twitter users.

Here's how it played out in numbers.

Tweets contatining "Carex" peaked around midday after the original tweet was posted at 11am.

The most common hashtags associated with Carex are #carex and #Carex, followed closely by #coronovirusuk and #coronavirus. However, there were some shock contenders from #Hiring, #MummyDiaries, and #panicbuying.

By far the most popular emoji in tweets containing Carex is 😂

Top mentions included in Tweets. Honourable mention to @YorkshireTea and @eBay.

Word cloud showing most commonly used words in tweets containing "Carex".

Find out how to scrape Tweets with our guide to Scraping Tweets in R.

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