Popular Tweets About #MH370

On March 8th, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared while en-route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Search and rescue efforts are currently ongoing.

We started tracking the hashtag #MH370, #Pray4MH370 and many other related hashtags on Twitter since March 9th (Day 2 of the search), 3pm onwards.

By 3pm on March 12th (Day 5) we had collected over 1 million tweets from 360 thousand users. From this we prepared a list of the Top 100 Popular Tweets. Ranking was based on the number of users who shared the content on Twitter, not retweets.