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An ABC News story shows how strange going viral can be

  • Written by Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

ABC News has now firmly established itself as the nation’s third most visited online news source, according to data from the Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX). But one specific ABC News story shows social media’s power to reach large and unexpected audiences.

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