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The Florida Phoenix @FLPhoenixNews Lots of corporate contributions for the new Republican governor, records show. #Florida #sayfie #FlaPol 10:32 AM adey-5 randes-24 aynon-35 oxson-1 uz-18 az-36 rme Flor Huson Lee-20 Mayfeld Montfard3 Passidom Powel 30 Rader-29 Rods Strwat 13 Taddeo-40 Thurston-33 Gr Gov. DeSantis campaign account gets $850,000 since January | Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis' political committee raised nearly $437,000 during May more than it collected during all of the year's first quarter, according to records on file w... floridaphoenix.com 9:54 AM -12 Jun 2019

Senator Rubio Press @SenRubioPress Good luck to Miami's Silvio Plata, who will compete in the 2019 Braille Challenge National Finals in California! Silvio has an incredible story & we are so proud he is representing Florida. #sayfie #flapol He's 15 and blind. And this Miami teen is about to compete on Braille's bigge... A blind 15-year-old Miami high school student is competing in the 2019 Braille Challenge National Finals later this month. Silvio Plata, a rising sophomore at G.... miamiherald.com 1:34 PM -17 Jun 2019

Rep. Joy Goff-Marcil @joyforfl Public dollars should go to public education We should be encouraging inclusion and not funding discrimination. #sayfie Calvary CityChristian ncaaemy & Preschoo Academy Christian Florida governor, legislators back state funding for private, anti-LGBT school... Saying "I am gay" can get you expelled from schools that Florida taxpayers fund. The governor and legislators are OK with that. orlandosentinel.com 8:30 PM 15 Jun 2019

Florida Chamber CHAMBER @FIChamber To help prepare and protect businesses and families, the Florida Chamber of Commerce is making available the below 30 second Public Service Announcement. This PSA is available for your use to encourage businesses and families to take necessary precautions. #sayfie #flapol FLORIDA CHAMBER of Commerce Mark Wilson, President/CEO, Florida Chamber of Commerce 3:30 PM -24 Jun 2019

William Byatt @wm_byatt .@FlaYoungDems straw poll: 43% Warren 20% Sanders 14% Buttigieg 6% Harris 4% Biden 2% O'Rourke 2% Gravel 2% Booker No other candidate received votes. #Sayfie 4:38 PM -15 Jun 2019

Drew VanDrese @DrewVanDrese love work trips to FL in the summer !!! #sayfie #melting Daily Today Hourly Mon 24 Tue 25 Wed 26 Thu 27 Fri 28 t 97° 940 94° 91° 89° 76° 75° 75° 740 740 40% 40% 40% 50% Tropical Depression Likely to Form in Pacific ean 9:41 PM -23 Jun 2019 from Ann Arbor, MI

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#Sayfie is a hashtag user to denote articles by the Florida news outlet the Sayfie Review. Following the site's popularity, the tag soon became synonymous with tweets and news reports that were specific to Florida.

Origin

The hashtag Sayfie is typically used in conjunction with a post from the Floridan online news outlet the Sayfie Review, which launched in 2002, following in the example of the Drudge Report, an online conservative news outlet.

On January 6th, 2009,the official Twitter^[1] account for the Sayfie Review news outlet tweeted "If you are tweeting Jeb Bush or anything about Florida politics be sure to use #sayfie" (shown below).

SR SayfieReview @SayfieReview If you are tweeting Jeb Bush or anything about Florida politics be sure to use #sayfie - http://sayfiereview.com 4:13 PM - 6 Jan 2009

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Over the next decade, the Sayfie Review continued to tag their specific stories with the hashtag, denoting as something that is about Florida specifically. For example, on January 30th, 2012, @SayfieReview tweeted^[2] about an investigation started by Florida Governor Rick Scott (shown below, left).

However, as the hashtag continued to grow in prominence, people began tagging other stories in Flordia #sayfie. On January 30th, 2014, Twitter user @SteveCrisafulli tweeted,^[3] "The Florida House lays out the “Economic Opportunity Through Education” agenda." In addition to using the hashtag, they linked the tweet to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, not the Sayfie Review (shown below, right).

SR SayfieReview @SayfieReview Times: Gov. Rick Scott orders FDLE investigation into fatal l-75 crashes is.gd/zkjbsV #sayfie 6:46 PM - 30 Jan 2012

The Florida House lays out the "Economic Opportunity Through Education" agenda. bit.ly/1cAheeY #sayfie #WorkPlanFL 5:47 PM -30 Jan 2014

Prominent politicians in Florida have also taken to posting the hashtag. For example, on June 20th, 2019, Florida Senator Marco Rubio shared^[4] a story about ransomware in Flordia from the New York Times. He added, "Don’t understand why these attacks aren’t getting more attention & generating more concern Taxpayers of Riviera Beach, #Florida just paid $600k in ransom to cyber-criminals. I am working on ideas to help local govts protect against this #sayfie." The post received more than 500 likes and 200 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

Marco Rubio @marcorublo Don't understand why these attacks aren't getting more attention & generating more concern Taxpayers of Riviera Beach, #Florida just paid $600k in ransom to cyber-criminals I am working on ideas to help local govts protect against this nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/

On June 23rd, 2019, The Daily Dot ^[5] published a report on the hashtag as well as the website. The article criticized the site and its founder, writing, "Some guy reads the news, regurgitates it, links to it, and rakes in the dough. Florida publications--technically his competitors--even use #sayfie in their tweets."

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dan smith @danspacesmith Another day of silence from @RepBrianMast on the absolutely inhumane conditions in which CBP is keeping holding children. But they don't own boats so he doesn't care. #flapol #sayfie child migrants are supposed to be transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services grant detention facility last week in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of children were held: within three days. They should then be placed with a parent, relative or guardian al- ready living in the United States. The failure by the federal government to do so - rather than Congress's failure to send aid, Binford argued has left children languishing in overcrowded facilities meant for adults, with some sleeping on cold concrete because there are not enough beds and mats, she said. The 15-year-old mother, her baby covered in mucus It seemed no matter how many times she washed the sick baby's clothes in the sink she couldn't get them clean. There was no soap. And when she tried to find baby food, there was none of that, either. All they had was in stant oatmeal for breakfast, instant soup for lunch and a frozen burrito for dinner, "every single day," Binford said. "By the end of the second day, we were phone with the legal counsel on the case say ing, These kids are at risk. There's gonna be another kid who dies if we don't do some- on the Child care was not the forte of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Binford could see. Here. in a warehouse filled with filthv kids 12:16 PM - 24 Jun 2019

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @SayfieReview's Tweet

^[2] Twitter – @SayfieReview's Tweet

^[3] Twitter – @SteveCrisafulli's Tweet

^[4] Twitter – @marcorubio's Tweet

^[5] The Daily Dot – What is #sayfie and why do Floridians use it so much?

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