Occupy Twitter
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Buzz about the Occupy Wall Street movement is building to a fever pitch. Reaching its peak on Oct. 6, the conversation about the protests still shows upward momentum, and new research from NM Incite reveals new findings about how Occupy Wall Street is playing out in social media. By studying and analyzing tweets ( update: as well as blogs, boards, groups, and video/images in this first graphic), NM Incite discovered that while the Twitter and other social media buzz remained relatively steady and peaked on the weekends throughout September, the biggest boost to the number of people conversing about this topic began Oct. 1 and peaked on Thursday, Oct. 6, when the five-day surge had 13,133 messages posted about the protests on that day.
Twitter Buzz Builds for the OWS Movement
While the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has been gaining momentum, growing in terms of visibility, media coverage and sheer numbers of participants, it has had a difficult time “occupying” the Twitter trending topics (TTs) list. #OccupyWallStreet , the movement’s dominant hashtag, has never once hit the New York TTs list. Similarly, #OccupyBoston has trended all across the world, but never in Boston, which only saw the phrases ‘Dewey Sq’ and ‘Dewey Square’ trend. Some point the blame at Twitter for censoring content, yet what seems to be happening is purely algorithmic.
Data Reveals That “Occupying” Twitter Trending Topics is Harder Than it Looks!
Oui, je trouve ça très intéressant de voir comment ils sont utilisés pour des mouvements, que ce soit les émeutes de cet été ou ows. A suivre :) by Oct 20
@amsika c'est marrant la similarité d'interet/de traitement entre tottenham riots et cette analyse d'une supposée censure. Le rôle des media/réseaux sociaux ne fait que débuter...dictature de la transparence ? Oui ! Et pour le mieux ! by Oct 20
Twitter: We Are Not Blocking Terms Related To #OccupyWallStreet In Any Way, Shape or Form
By Adrianne Jeffries 10/07/11 1:29pm Share this: Vibe, the anonymous, location-based version of Twitter popular at Occupy Wall Street.
Twitter Says It’s Not Censoring Occupy Wall Street–People Really Are More Concerned With Doritos Right Now
By Adrianne Jeffries 9/26/11 3:18pm Share this: An iPad set up Saturday night for anyone to tweet from the protest. Demonstrators down on Wall Street for the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ campaign as well as interested parties following the event online were wondering why the hashtag hasn’t broken into Twitter’s trending topics list, which right now feature Radiohead, Doritos and #thechew, a new talk show. Considering there is evidence that Yahoo is blocking emails about the protest with a message about “suspicious activity,” it was suggested that Twitter was also censoring the topic.
