By Nesh Pillay

Twitter erupted with the hashtags #GermanWings, #4u9525, and #4u9525 today as users mourned the 150 people killed after a German Wings plane, part of the Lufthansa group, crashed in France.

According to social media monitoring platform, Brandwatch, it isn’t unusual for users to mourn via social media, and the increased large-scale plane crashes in the last two years have further pushed this trend.

“Social media is the front line of breaking news, especially when it comes to airplane tragedies which dominate social conversations in the days following an incident. We’ve seen it before with AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and VS43, hashtags trend and Read full story ›

Source: The Drum