'Do they Know It’s Christmas' from #BandAid30 sees international Twitter boom thanks to stars including One Direction
UK charity single ‘Do they Know It’s Christmas’ by #BandAid30 has seen international support on Twitter, averaging a total of 31,500 tweets an hour on Monday.
Bob Geldof’s iconic track has returned, this time to combat the growing threat of Ebola in western Africa which has killed over 5,000 people. In response to the overwhelmingly postive online buzz driving sales, the Irish musician told Radio 4: “From what we’ve seen from iTunes it’s gone bonkers. Within four or five minutes we had a million quid.”
Since being aired on Capital FM at 8am on Monday, there were over 157,500 tweets discussing the Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
