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The people who can make any topic trend in 30 minutes
Journalist Paul Mason reports on a group of university dropouts who are using social media to influence young people on a huge scale. In an old cotton mill in Manchester, the one-time students have created a new kind of business. They claim to be able to make any topic the number one trend on Twitter in under 30 minutes.
First broadcast on The Kids Who Decide What All the Other Kids Talk About, 5 January 2017.
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