anime culture
Reading was the victim of a hostile twitter takeover yesterday when fans of a Japanese cartoon stole the rdg hashtag.
Yesterday evening, between 5pm and 6pm, loyal fans of the cartoon figure Red Data Girl stormed #rdg with more than 17,000 tweets.
Hashtag data shows that at peak the tweets reached an eye watering 17,500 an hour, usual use registers below 1,000 tweets.
Although their tweets have dramatically decreased, Red Data Girl's fans appear determined to continue their rule over #rdg so Reading is now tasked with finding an alternative hastag.