{"id":33616,"date":"2020-12-18T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33616"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:40:51","slug":"interest-in-bitcoin-on-twitter-and-wikipedia-rises-as-prices-hit-new-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/interest-in-bitcoin-on-twitter-and-wikipedia-rises-as-prices-hit-new-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest in Bitcoin on Twitter and Wikipedia rises as prices hit new highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in Bitcoin among internet users rose in tandem with prices climbing above $20,000. This is evidenced by the number of tweets mentioning Bitcoin on Twitter and the traffic to the asset&#8217;s page on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over the day, The TIE analysts registered more than 92,000 messages related to digital gold, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-chatter-on-twitter-nears-highest-level-in-3-years-amid-price-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119908\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119908\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-12-17_19-41-53.jpg\" alt=\"\u0418\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 Twitter \u0438 \u0412\u0438\u043a\u0438\u043f\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0438 \u043a \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u0432\u044b\u0440\u043e\u0441 \u043d\u0430 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0445 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\u043e\u0432\" width=\"775\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-12-17_19-41-53.jpg 775w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-12-17_19-41-53-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-12-17_19-41-53-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: CoinDesk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Analysts linked the increase in Bitcoin-related posts to both actions by active figures in the crypto industry and tweets from distinctive accounts. On Wednesday, December 16, around 50,000 Twitter users were actively discussing it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the service <a href=\"https:\/\/pageviews.toolforge.org\/?project=en.wikipedia.org&#038;platform=all-access&#038;agent=user&#038;redirects=0&#038;range=this-year&#038;pages=Bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ToolForge<\/a>, on December 16 the Bitcoin page on Wikipedia drew 16,088 views. The absolute record for 2020 was set on December 17 \u2014 28,483 views.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119909\" style=\"width: 879px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119909\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119909\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pageviews-20200101-20201217.png\" alt=\"\u0418\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 Twitter \u0438 \u0412\u0438\u043a\u0438\u043f\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0438 \u043a \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u0432\u044b\u0440\u043e\u0441 \u043d\u0430 \u0444\u043e\u043d\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0445 \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0441\u0438\u043c\u0443\u043c\u043e\u0432\" width=\"869\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pageviews-20200101-20201217.png 869w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pageviews-20200101-20201217-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pageviews-20200101-20201217-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-119909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Average daily visits to the Bitcoin page on the English-language version of Wikipedia. Data: ToolForge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since January 1, the Bitcoin page has been visited on average by 7,004 users per day. Total views have surpassed 2.46 million.<\/p>\n<p>On December 17, Bitcoin came close to gold in media mentions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 The flippening is coming! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> mentions in mainstream media and finance publications on track to overtake gold! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ezkl7ZyKP7\">pic.twitter.com\/Ezkl7ZyKP7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The TIE (@TheTIEIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTIEIO\/status\/1339318045005627392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As reported, between December 16 and 17, Bitcoin sequentially <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-breaks-through-the-23000-level\">hit notable levels<\/a> $20,000, $21,000 and $22,000 and surpassed $23,700 to set a new all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public interest in Bitcoin rose in tandem with prices rising above $20,000, as evidenced by the number of tweets mentioning Bitcoin on Twitter and the traffic to the asset&#8217;s page on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,480],"class_list":["post-33616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33618,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616\/revisions\/33618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}