Top CAP Social Media: 2021

Twitter
The top-trending tweet of 2021, featuring Maj. Sian Proctor of the Arizona Wing aboard Inspiration4 as it orbited Earth, generated 152.,300 impressions.

Second-highest was a 17,800-impressioin tweet about a Kentucky Wing operations center’s aerial photography mission after deadly tornados.

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YouTube
The most popular video in 2021 was viewed by more than 1.2 million people, who saw a Black Hawk helicopter intercepting a CAP plane in preparation for the Super Bowl.

The second-most-popular video, watched 17,900, showed another intercept mission, this one featuring an F-15 and a CAP plane.

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Facebook
More than 65,000 people were reached by the Sept. 12 post about the 20th anniversary of Civil Air Patrol’s flight above the World Trade Center’s remnants after the 9-11 attacks in New York City. The mission inspired a painting that hangs in the art collection at National Headquarters.

A close second was a post the same week about Proctor’s space flight, reaching 58,500.

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LinkedIn
CAP's involvement in locating survivors of a plane crash in Pennsylvania generated more than 14,600 impressions on LinkedIn in 2021.

A story about Cadet Capt. Rylee Emaus of the Ohio Wing, a CAP Cadet Wings graduate who soloed on her 16th birthday, generated 12,500 impressions.

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Instagram
Most-liked on Instagram was a diversity post during Pride Month that reached 12,400 people. A very close second at 12,300 was a July post about CAP summer encampments.