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By Erhardt Graeffwith Seth Woodworth
Data Summary

111,741 tweets about Afghanistan and its presidential election posted between August 11, 2009 and September 9, 2009
11,255 tweets on August 20, 2009, the day of the election
29,642 users talked about Afghanistan in our dataset
Top 10% of tweeters contributed 65% of tweets (same as Iran Election)
Number [...]

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 [...]