Interest in Bitcoin on Twitter and Wikipedia rises as prices hit new highs

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’s page on Wikipedia.

Over the day, The TIE analysts registered more than 92,000 messages related to digital gold, according to CoinDesk.

Data: CoinDesk.

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.

According to the service ToolForge, on December 16 the Bitcoin page on Wikipedia drew 16,088 views. The absolute record for 2020 was set on December 17 — 28,483 views.

Average daily visits to the Bitcoin page on the English-language version of Wikipedia. Data: ToolForge.

Since January 1, the Bitcoin page has been visited on average by 7,004 users per day. Total views have surpassed 2.46 million.

On December 17, Bitcoin came close to gold in media mentions.

🚨🚨 The flippening is coming! #Bitcoin mentions in mainstream media and finance publications on track to overtake gold! pic.twitter.com/Ezkl7ZyKP7

— The TIE (@TheTIEIO) December 16, 2020

As reported, between December 16 and 17, Bitcoin sequentially hit notable levels $20,000, $21,000 and $22,000 and surpassed $23,700 to set a new all-time high.

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