Wall Street Protests Gain Steam as Videos of Alleged Police Brutality Go Viral. Reports about the size of crowds and the stamina of protesters at Wall Street in New York City vary, but several videos from the “Occupy Wall Street” protests have gone viral and some protesters allege that an overzealous NYPD has been forcefully restraining and even macing peaceful protesters. Ten days in (the Wall Street protests began September 17th) it seems the movement is gaining steam rather than petering out, with 80 arrests made over the weekend by the NYPD at the site of the demonstrations in downtown Manhattan. 25-year-old Chelsea Elliott is one of the women in the video who is visibly corralled behind orange netting- a crowd control practice known as “kettling”- before, she says, police used mace or pepper spray on the women (who do not appear to be violent), causing them to shriek in pain.
Elliott spoke to the New York Times about the incident, video of which has spread violently: Elliott adds: NYPD spokesman Paul J. NBC: (analytics) internet is driving the story. NYTimes: livestreaming, social media etc. crucial to growth. (Academic article) Occupy Online: Facebook and the Spread of Occupy Wall Street by Neal Caren, Sarah Gaby. Neal Caren University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Sociology Sarah Gaby University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of SociologyOctober 24, 2011 Abstract: Since Occupy Wall Street began in New York City on September 17th, the movement has spread offline to hundreds of locations around the globe.
Based on data acquired from Facebook, we find that Occupy groups have recruited over 170,000 active Facebook users and more than 1.4 million “likes” in support of Occupations. Number of Pages in PDF File: 20 Keywords: Occupy Wall Street, Social Networks, Social Movements working papers series Suggested Citation. Reuters: "From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world" Over 100K different hashtags used to discuss Occupy Wall Street on Twitter. 21 October '11, 10:42pm Follow If you’ve been active on Twitter lately, it’s highly likely that you’ve run into one or two #Occupy hashtags over the past few weeks.
In fact, Twitter has just reported that over 100K different hashtags have been used to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and similar “occupy” tactics. Directly from Twitter: Top occupy-related hashtags: #occupywallstreet #ows #occupywallst #occupy #occupyboston #takewallstreet #p2 #nypdUp to 330K total hashtags about occupy-topics tweeted each day, with up to 17K different hashtags daily.Top 10 cities tweeting occupy hashtags, in order: NYC, LA, DC, SF, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Portland.Top cities outside US tweeting occupy hashtags are: London, Cairo, Toronto, Madrid, Sydney, Vancouver, Berlin, Mexico City & Dublin. These are hashtags that have been officially recorded by Twitter. How were these hashtags tallied? 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. Not so, says Twitter’s Carolyn Penner, who pointed us to this blog post, written after people made the same speculation about the #wikileaks tag, which explains that Twitter’s trending topics are based on what’s breaking out rather than what’s popular.
Sometimes a topic doesn’t break into the Trends list because its popularity isn’t as widespread as people believe. By Taboolaby Taboola Promoted ContentPromoted Content. #OccupyWallSt, #OWS or #Occupy? Over 100K Different Hashtags Used In Occupy Protests. Twitter has announced that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have created over 100,000 different hashtags related to the cause.
Taking to Twitter in a four-part tweet, @TwitterComms announced some interesting Occupy Wall Street stats on Friday. Among them is the fact that protesters have created more than 100,000 different hashtags about the movement, many of which contain the name of the separate cities that have joined New York as a site for the occupiers. The most popular Occupy-related hashtags include: #occupywallstreet#ows#occupywallst #occupy#occupyboston#takewallstreet#p2#nypd Twitter has been criticized in the past of censoring popular hashtags and keywords from reaching the Trending Topic list, a criticism that was especially loud during WikiLeaks’ latest round in the spotlight. However, the fragmentation of hashtags might explain away the cries of “censorship”, which Twitter has denied from the beginning. Reuters: 'Occupy Wall Street is a hashtag revolt' NEW YORK - In 2011 in America, what passes for a revolution is a frightening tangle of wires, power strips, routers and gas generators underneath a canopy in the center of a park.
That fire hazard of a mess is at the center, literally and figuratively, of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The protesters who have disrupted lower Manhattan since mid-September have assembled the means to blast out their message -- if they can agree on what they fighting for. "Whoever controls the media, the messages, controls the culture," read a ratty cardboard sign that Connor Petras held at the corner of a major downtown intersection. But Petras, juggling his BlackBerry and an apparently stale wheat bagel while also trying to hold the sign, acknowledged the protesters did not have their rallying cry figured out.
"There's not really a main focus point ... and I think that is a problem," the 18-year-old New Jersey native said. {*style:<b> Hashtag to Tumblr </b>*} It is anarchy, and the people like it that way.