Use of Twitter during Gezi protests: 1) Unlike in some protests, almost all of the earliest tweets originated from within Turkey: Only about 30 percent of people tweeting during the Egyptian revolution in 2011 were actually in Egypt, but around 90 percent of all the Gezi-related tweets came from inside Turkey, and 50 percent came from Istanbul, even though at times 3G and Wifi was unavailable in the area 2) A small group of protesters drove almost the entire conversation: Just one percent of users generated about 80 percent of all retweets, and three-quarters of users talking about the protests got no retweets at all. 3) Some of these Turkey protest "authorities" are not very central to the overall Twitter-sphere. 4) Tweets about Turkey quickly spread to the English-speaking Twitter community.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:03:24 +0000
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