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…
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…
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…
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…
Today Armenia has a presidential election. I’ve been tracking the election hashtag #armvote13 as well as the election monitoring hashtag #iditord. When I say tracking, I mean running #nodexl analysis on the hashtags. I explained how I did this for recent events in Azerbaijan here – basically why I am doing this, how I am…
Ismayilli isn’t “over,” at least on Twitter. full report What is really interesting about this updated analysis is the exceptionally tight cluster in group 1 – full of foreign NGOs and news organizations as well as English-tweeting Azerbaijanis and group 2 is again strange with all of these non-profile picture accounts. The tweets themselves are…
A few months ago it was decided that #armvote13 would be used as the hashtag for the upcoming presidential election. With one of the candidates being shot earlier today, the election has been postponed. (English RFE/RL) The #armvote13 hashtag isn’t too busy, but it does seem like some people talking about this are using that…
Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate in the current campaign for the presidency of Armenia was shot late Thursday evening in Tpagrichner street, downtown Yerevan. The wound was not fatal and it is reported that he was shot in the shoulder. ArmeniaNow (English), RFERL (Armenian). Who is talking about Hayrikyan on Twitter? Here’s a hashtag analysis from…