socialmedian: Staggering #IranElection Stats: 2 Million+ Total Tweets

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Staggering #IranElection Stats: 2 Million+ Total Tweets

Source: Mashable!

Jul 02, 2009

Summary

In mid-May we published stats that measured the scale of the #iranelection coverage on Twitter, as measured by social media tracking service Trendrr. Mashable’s Ben Parr remarked that we were “approaching one million tweets on the situation”, although this only counted tweets mentioning the exact term #iranelection.

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 below, but stat heads may wish to dig into the methodology noted on the report itself [warning: PDF link].

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

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