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By: General McChrystal Has No Idea What’s Going On In Afghanistan « JOIN THE NEW BROOM PARTY

Thu, 13 May 2010 22:07:39 +0000

[...] and Nasim Fekrat on my cellphone. And that’s not me being absurd, that’s exactly how it works. I should know: The top tweeters on Afghanistan are more heterogeneous in their affiliations than the the top [...]

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Sun, 09 May 2010 06:15:19 +0000

[...] Fekrat on my cellphone. And that’s not me being absurd, that’s exactly how it works. I should know: The top tweeters on Afghanistan are more heterogeneous in their affiliations than the the top [...]

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:58:14 +0000

[...] Web Ecology Project’s reports: The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days and Afghanistan and its Election on Twitter: The Macro Picture, where I noted that as “1D4TW” I was the 32nd most active twitterer on the topic, a [...]

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By: maximilianforte

maximilianforte — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:25:24 +0000

Excellent report again, very useful to have this quantitative data, and you also considered some qualitative data as well, especially toward the end of the report, focusing on the need for more 'granular' information.

Unlike #iranelection, however, one has to note that it does not appear that any of the Afghan election discussion streams ever rose to trending topic status. Also, another difference, this time it was easier to identify the source of information, as you listed above, with much greater transparency and virtually none of the unsubstantiated rumor-milling (the "Unconfirmed Please RT" phenomenon that marked #iranelection). One more difference that came to mind was the fact that it was also clearer who was posting from Afghanistan, and just as clear who was not an Afghan posting from Afghanistan (because they often identified their institutional affiliations that marked them as non-nationals). Finally, there was generally, I thought, a lack of debate: most of the tweets appeared to be FYI links to news and NGO sources.

Perhaps for some of these reasons there was no talk of an Afghan Twitter Revolution, nor did Twitter appear to capture the attention of the mainstream media in this instance.

Would anyone disagree, or have other observations or corrections to offer?

By: maximilianforte

maximilianforte — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:24 +0000