The Iranian Election on Twitter:
The First Eighteen Days
Key Findings
- From 7 June 2009 until the time of publication
(26 June 2009), we have recorded 2,024,166
tweets about the election in Iran. - Approximately 480,000 users have contributed
to this conversation alone. - 59.3% of users tweet just once, and these users
contribute 14.1% of the total number. - The top 10% of users in our study account for
65.5% of total tweets. - 1 in 4 tweets about Iran is a retweet of another
user’s content.

