Feb 25 2am #barevolution and #armvote13 hashtag analysis
#armvote13 #barevolution
#armvote13 #barevolution
#barevolution is sweeping Armenia. I posted my thoughts here. But while Raffi Hovannisian is different from those in power now, what does he actually stand for? What are his ideas for Armenia? First, his background – mostly drawn from his Wikipedia page with some contextualization by me. * As I mentioned in my earlier post,…
barevolution What is my analysis? The Armenian twittersphere is SMALL. As has been the norm with these hashtags, foreigners and locals are divided. #armvote13
#barevolution 9pm Feb 23 #armvote13 9pm Feb 23
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 —…
#armvote13 #barevolution Sorry for the lack of analysis – I’m traveling but wanted to get this out there.
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…
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…
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.
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…