1. Statistics and Stories from the Frontlines
Iran and Twitter
Statistics and Stories from the Frontlines
What do you know about twitter?

2. Twitter Revolution/Schmevolution
Maximillian Forte of Open Anthropology makes claims based on “a sample of 1,280 tweets” ranging from 13 June to 17 June.
Noam Cohen, from the New York Times, briefly investigates only one user, mousavi1388, for one day: 16 June.
The Atlantic, Time, Technology Review….
Been some people who challenge that twitter was really force in Iran. The detractors are basing arguments on data from very limited data sets. 4 days, 1 day, one user. 1,280 tweets.

3. Webcology’s Dataset
From 7 June 2009 until 26 June 2009 we have recorded 2,024,166 tweets about the election in Iran
Approximately 480,000 users have contributed to this conversation alone
59.3% of users tweet just once, and these users contribute 14.1% of the total number
The top 10% of users in our study account for 65.5% of total tweets
1 in 4 tweets about Iran is a retweet of another user’s content
!e Web Ecology Project is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its members are a"liated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Center for Future Civic Media, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our mission is to build tools to better understand the #ows of culture and the formation of communities in the complex social ecology of the web.
They found that
Twitter has become a preferred vehicle to
broadcast unfolding events in Iran both within
the country and to an international audience. And they did it by awesome quantative analsysis

4. Search Terms Used Total tweets accumulated in this study, by term:
ahmadinejad tweets
basij tweets
gr tweets
iran tweets
iranelection tweets
iranian tweets
khameni tweets
mousavi tweets
mousavi tweets
neda tweets
rafsanjani - 77 tweets
tehran tweets
You can see by the search terms that they are looking at more than just iran elections. Key words.

5. #iranelection
Do you see how on your searches you can miss items when you just use one search term?

6. Tweets Spike as Violent Protests Begin

7. Austin Heap: He Did Something
Tweeting the Revolution