Twitter is a great platform, but for better or worse, it added support for non-Latin alphabets quite late. Today media.am had a great article on the use of the hashtags #Armenia, #Հայաստան (Armenia in Armenian script), and #Армения (Armenia in Russian). I thought that I’d add an additional layer by doing a NodeXL hashtag analysis….
It has been awhile since there has been hashtag shenanigans in the Caucasus. Some of the major hashtag shenanigans players fell out of favor. But this week things heated up again. I started seeing random odd tweets from accounts and upon clicking through it seemed like they were likely fake accounts – brand new, stock…
The past few days have seen a notable increase in cease-fire violations on the frontline of Nagorno Karabakh, with deaths on both sides (although more Azerbaijani deaths). I’m currently in Azerbaijan, but I keep an eye on both Azerbaijani and Armenian social media spaces and these are a few thing that have happened on the…
A Facebook plugin called Find Your Best Friend On FB has blown up this week. I assume that it looks at private messaging frequency and frequncy of likes and comments and then pops out a photo of you with that person. I don’t really like these apps because they’re scanning your private messages and that…
(Via Civilnet.am) There is a series of protests in Armenia right now, focused on Vladimir Putin’s visit, but overall critiquing Armenia’s possibly joining the Eurasian Union. Unzipped does a nice summary here. Here’s my Dec 3 hashtag analysis that is the following relationships. It is basically Armenians (far left), foreigners (middle), and Russians (right). You…
#azvote13 – mid-September to today #secki2013 – mid-September to today
I’ve written a lot about “winning” hashtags and how this is a boastful tool for organizations. Here’s what I wrote yesterday on it. I’ve also written about trickery using Twitter. Here’s a good one. But now I have a new story… As I was going through the Azerbaijani election hashtags, I noticed something funny. This…
Hashtags are an interesting 21st century phenomenon. Hashtags are keywords to organize information to describe a tweet and aid in searching (Small, 2011). Hashtags also take on a symbolic quality and perhaps are an example of metacommunication. When I post a picture of parents recording every minute of a kids’ holiday concert, complaining about how…
More to come, but… #azvote13 for last 48 hours Group 1, the largest group, was unnetworked people. Group 2 is a big cluster of foreign organizations and some individuals, Azerbaijani and foreign, associated with them. Seems like it was a lot of discussion and re-tweeting of Rebecca Vincent. Group 3 is pro-government. Group 4 is…
#secki2013 – just for the last day #azvote13 – just for the last day