Visualization of Egyptian Revolution On Twitter 53
An anonymous reader writes "A visualization of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation, is available. The data was collected using Gephi connected to the Twitter Streaming API, converting the users and retweets to nodes and edges in a dynamic network. Though the data represents only approximately 10% of the retweets, it's interesting to see the large flow of interconnected retweets in just one hour." I've attached the video if you want to watch it.
Re: Interesting? (Score:4, Informative)
May I suggest listening to "Why Does This Always Happen to Me" by Weird Al Yankovic?
Look at it on Youtube instead... (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Interesting? (Score:2, Informative)
You have to understand this from the perspective of the Obama administration. He's been rightly criticized for his inept and often contradictory foreign policy messages. His lapdogs in the news media are trying to give him every chance to get out in front of this story and look like he supported the Egyptians' freedom all along, even though it was barely 2 years ago that Obama took his apology tour to Cairo and praised Mubarak. The Egyptian people rightly see Obama as playing political calculus and backing whoever comes out on top of this, but CNN won't show you their "No You Can't" posters of Mubarak spoofing Obama's red white and blue Hope poster.