People of diverse ethnic backgrounds cleaned house at the Oscars. USA Today (among others) is calling this season’s big winner: “Diversity”.
The night saw just short of 6 million tweets from users around the globe. Of those tweets, 21% of the posts were from Spanish-speaking users. This comes to little surprise, with Spanish directors winning the Oscar for Best Director for the fifth year in a row. About 40% of the posts come from Central and South America.
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Beyond language and geography, celebrities of color were among the top mentioned of the night, from Roma director Alfonso Cuaron, to the South Korean boy band, BTS.
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Six of the ten top mentions are people of color