Something about the community feel of #FBPE means that these converts quickly have a very supportive new home. There is even a growing community of Leave voters converted to Remain that use the specific hashtag #RemainerNow and also proudly bear #FBPE on their names. The Twitter account carries Twitter “lists” of thousands of accounts that bear the hashtag on their names. However, #FBPE still remains the largest and most prominent. Others are #FBSI (Follow Back Scottish Independence), #WATON (We Are The Opposition Now), #ABTV (Anti-Brexit Tactical Vote). One was #NHSlove, started by pro-NHS social media superstar Dr Lauren Gavaghan. Other hashtags also blossomed directly from the #FBPE community. The #PCPEU hashtag grew fast and developed its own flavour. That move took a lot of heat out of the within-#FBPE battles. In early January 2018, Mark Winder set up a new hashtag – #PCPEU – for “Pro-Corbyn Pro-EU” so that they could grow their own community in the Corbyn base without having to deal with sniping from others in the #FBPE crowd. Odd rumours spread that #FBPE was a Lib Dem or Tory operation against Corbyn. The attacks came especially from Liberal Democrats. Jeremy Corbyn supporters, whether #FBPE themselves or not, started getting angry that many bearing #FBPE were attacking Corbyn’s position on Brexit. They succeeded in ‘getting the vote out’…well done…will now do a conventional poll for comparison…”Īll was not well within the #FBPE tent, however. Unscientific of course but notable for how remainers constantly retweeted to help the result they wanted especially those with #FPBE. Ashcroft noted the effectiveness of #FBPE grumpily: “Final result. After over 180,000 votes, the results came back 67 per cent for yes and 28 per cent for no. Both have now dropped it from their names.īrexiteer Lord Ashcroft conducted a Twitter poll asking whether people wanted a second referendum on Brexit. Famous online Brexiteers Julia Hartley-Brewer and David Vance both caught that bug and appended #FBPE to their names, claiming it meant “Full Brexit Prompt Exit.” They were met with welcoming messages, thanking them for spreading awareness of a pro-EU movement. There were various attempts to try to set up pro-Brexit alternatives, and then to use the #FBPE hashtag itself and try to infiltrate and redefine it. At first Brexiteers didn’t know quite how to respond. There was an immediate sense of cohesive community. The #FBPE hashtag boomed in visibility during December. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Let’s do this!” Hendrik is a Dutch member of the pan-European group “Progressive Europe” which wanted to combat right-wing populism on social media. The hashtag was first used on 25 October 2017 by Hendrik Klaassens, who posted: “#ProEU tweeps organize Follow Back Saturdays! Type #FollowBackProEU or #FBPE if you want to get more #ProEU followers. The history of the hashtag’s use has been short, exotic, and is an entertaining tale of Twitter culture. It has solidified an online community and made it highly visible. Thus, it has rapidly helped build up the accounts of pro-EU frontline troops on Twitter whilst also interconnecting them in powerful ways to transmit information more rapidly and efficiently. So it is a flag of pro-EU support, but also an indication that if you “follow” the bearer, they will follow you back if you also carry the hashtag. What does it all mean? And where did it come from?įBPE stands for “Follow Back, Pro EU”. More likely you saw it appended to the names of many Twitter rank-and-file pouring fiery anti-Brexit commentary on Brexit-related tweets. The key would be the first word of each block.If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you may have noticed the #FBPE hashtag adorning tweets. My goal is to load this file in an hash table. The file is a lot bigger in reality, these are the last lines. I have a file with the following structure : finance
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