Now the Web Ecology Project has gone a step further and published a thorough report entitled "The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days". Rather than just looking at specific terms like "#iranelection" or "iran", the study includes 12 terms related to the Iran situation, giving a more complete overview of events.
We've highlighted the key findings here, but stat heads may wish to dig into the methodology noted on the report itself, embedded in full below.
Iran Election on Twitter: Key Stats
- From June 7th till June 26th, the study recorded 2,024,166 tweets about Iran
- An estimated 480,000 Twitter users contributed to the conversation
- Of those that Tweeted about Iran, 59.3% tweeted once - this accounted for 14.1% of the Tweets
- The top 10% of Iran Twitterers accounted for 65.5% of the Tweets
-- 1 in 4 Tweets about Iran were retweets
Iran Election Stats by Keyword
- ahmadinejad: 1,765 Tweets
- basij: 3,295 Tweets
- gr88:151,038 Tweets
- iran: 903,193 Tweets
- iranelection:: 857,401 Tweets
- iranian:- 9,929 Tweets
- khameni: 1,409 Tweets
- mousavi: 16,970 Tweets
- mousavi1388: - 325 Tweets
- neda: 97,872 Tweets
- rafsanjani: 77 Tweets
- tehran:- 85,019 Tweets
Full Report - The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days
This is an embedded version of the Web Ecology Project report, available for download at their site [warning: PDF link].