Al Jazeera launches Twitter dashboard to track uprisings
March 8th, 2011Posted by Sarah Marshall in Data, Social media and blogging
Al Jazeera has launched a Twitter dashboard of the Arab uprisings to show what is being tweeted about and where.
One section shows the daily total of tweets mentioning hashtags for Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt and the average number of tweets per minute. These are also shown in a graph.
Another graphic shows the hashtag distribution for each country getting the most attention in the Twittersphere. Hashtags for Libya include various spellings of Libya and Gaddafi, plus #feb17
A Twitter feed is also included.
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