#barevolution #armvote13 9pm Feb 23 hashtag analysis
#barevolution 9pm Feb 23 #armvote13 9pm Feb 23
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on #barevolution — thoughts from Feb 23 (and a Feb 24 addition)
I have to admit – I am REALLY excited about what is happening in Armenia. Here’s the tl;dr: – Last Monday (18 Feb) there was a presidential election that almost everyone assumed would be fixed so that the current regime would win. – Nonetheless, there was an incredible effort to do election violating monitoring —…
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#armvote13 -> #barevolution Feb 23 6pm hashtag analysis
#armvote13 #barevolution Sorry for the lack of analysis – I’m traveling but wanted to get this out there.
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#armvote13 -> #barevolution
So now that some real stuff is happening in Armenia, we have a new hashtag! #barevolution or Բարեւոլյուշըն in Armenian – so this is a play on words. Raffi say “Barev, Hayastan” to the crowd – meaning “Hello, Armenia.” Moreover, the word “arev” means sun. I’m not really sure if this has totally caught on…
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis update
Feb 21 6pm Feb 21 11pm 22 Feb 6pm I’m a little confused by this latest analysis, but then I realized that some sort of news tweeting thing used the hashtag, so I redid the graph without that account in it. So here’s the “correct” version. Same deal as before – people on the ground…
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis Feb 21 1am Yerevan
Here’s the latest. Biggest question for me is what is interactivity here, conceptually. Group 1 is foreigners interested in Armenia. Group 2 is on the group. Group 3 is our Azerbaijani friends again.
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis update Feb 20 3pm, 7pm, 8pm
Full report Okay, this is becoming a little weird. I’m not entirely sure what’s happening, but I think that group 2 is still talking about the “hijacking” and group 1 is talking about the election. For those interested: #iditord 3pm Yerevan Feb 20 Րաֆֆի 3pm Yerevan Feb 20 Then a rally was held in Freedom…
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis update Feb 19 5:30pm
Feb 19 noon full report Feb 19 5:30pm full report Focusing on the 5:30 analysis, things have gotten really interesting! Group 1 is full of Armenians, Group 2 is Azerbaijanis (but not pro-government ones) and foreigners (with some foreign Armenians thrown in the mix), Group 3 is Rauf et al. Group 1 is talking about…
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis 11pm Feb 18
Okay, the hashtag is a bit back to normal. Here’s the full report. Group 1 is foreigners mixed in with some Armenians. Group 2 is local Armenians. Group 3 are the Azerbaijanis that tried to hijack the hashtag. Will keep tracking! Here’s the 1st and 2nd analysis. Also I did a quick search for Raffi…
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#armvote13 hashtag got taken over – looks suspicious
It is now 4pm in Yerevan, 5am in Seattle and I awoke to the #armvote13 hashtag having been taken over. #armvote13 was a “nice” hashtag for tweeple living in or interested in Armenia to discuss an election. It was really a democratic spirit. (Here are the analyses that I conducted over the past day or…