What do 88,831 tweets about protest and revolution in Iran look like? Following in the success of Egypt's #jan25 tag, protesters have piled onto the #25bahman tag to discuss Iran's own prospects for "revolution" (25 Bahman 1389 is the Hijri date for February 14, 2011). Curious to analyze and compare these movements, I've started collecting
I wondered yesterday whether one of the Algeria/Yemen hashtags would dominate. In order to bring some numbers to the discussion, I grabbed all public tweets on #feb12 and #fev12 through this afternoon. You can see the results below: First off, note that all timestamps are UTC. Second, based on the scale, it's pretty clear that
Algeria and Yemen seem to be pushing a #feb12 revolution hashtag like Egypt's #jan25 tag. In the Egyptian case, the French abbreviation of January didn't vary from the English, and so we really only saw two varieties of the tag - #jan25 and #25jan. I don't have hard numbers on this yet, but from my
