By the time Twitter reacted to the predominant way people used the platform and changed its initial question in 2010 from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" focusing on ongoing news and events.
The main shift is to telling stories about the people making the change happen; focusing on opportunities, solutions, and true green growth.
Wijesekera says while Nigeria's progress was impressive, it happened by focusing very narrowly on eradicating Guinea worm, for example by sending out community health workers who were trained specifically to deal with the disease.
The World Cup has become so successful a business venture that, in the words of Julio Grondona, an eminent active member of Fifa for the better part of 50 years, "when it happens it focuses the attention of most people in the world to the detriment of other events".
It happened to Bill Clinton, who focused like a laser-beam on the economy, only to stumble in Haiti, Somalia and China.
"[When it happened,] The media focused mainly on this picture, but I think it was a general anger".
Cho said he expects the dialogue at the border village of Panmunjom, if it happens, to be focused on North Korea's participation at the Olympics in February, but other issues would likely arise, including the decentralization of North Korea.
As it happened, the pants she was focused on had a hole where the crotch normally is, and the good bits to which she was referring... well, you get the point.
"There was a lot of anxiety before it happened and people's attention was focused on that and nothing else".
Tracey Vitchers, communications coordinator at Safer (Students Active for Ending Rape), said she was glad to see the White House "centralize the issue of preventing sexual assault before it happens" instead of focusing on how schools can simply avoid violating Title IX and the Clery Act.
