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Amplified messages: How hashtag activism and Twitter diplomacy converged at #ThisIsACoup – and won.

Check out my latest blog post for the LSE Impact blog: Online activism is a frequently debated topic amongst journalists and researchers alike. What effect can a popular Twitter hashtag really have in achieving political or social change? Wasim Ahmed looks in depth at last year’s heavily tweeted #ThisIsACoup hashtag. While concrete outcomes may still beContinue reading “Amplified messages: How hashtag activism and Twitter diplomacy converged at #ThisIsACoup – and won.”

An analysis of #ThisIsACoup

This is another blog post which seeks to analyse a viral hashtag, in this instance #ThisIsACoup, with data via Visibrain Focus (via Twitter’s Firehose API which in theory all of the tweets) for the month of July. This particular hashtag is of interest because recently, I received a message from a journalist Paul Mason, economic editor at ChannelContinue reading “An analysis of #ThisIsACoup”

Challenges of using Twitter as a data source: an overview of current resources

In one of my previous blog posts I outlined a number of software applications that could be used to capture and analyse data from Twitter. In this blog post I outline some of the methodological, ethical, privacy, and copyright issues associated with using Twitter as a data source. Twitter can be used as a source of dataContinue reading “Challenges of using Twitter as a data source: an overview of current resources”

Twitter data capture tools from a usability perspective

In a blog post comment I was asked what tools are good from a usability and interface perspective. And I thought this would make for a good blog post. The tools covered in this blog were recommended to me by my PhD supervisor. Many of these tools have existing guides, videos or instructional tutorials andContinue reading “Twitter data capture tools from a usability perspective”

Using Twitter to gain an insight into public views and opinions for the Ebola epidemic

The World Health Organisation writes that Ebola, a haemorrhagic fever, is a very severe and fatal illness with an average fatality rate of 50%. The first outbreak of Ebola occurred in 1976. The first case of Ebola, outside of West Africa, was reported in the U.S on September 19th 2014. The current Ebola outbreak hasContinue reading “Using Twitter to gain an insight into public views and opinions for the Ebola epidemic”

A list of tools to capture Twitter data

A list of tools that I have used to capture data from Twitter and which worked: TAGS: http://tags.hawksey.info/ Mozdeh: http://mozdeh.wlv.ac.uk/ Chorus: http://chorusanalytics.co.uk/ Netlytic: https://netlytic.org Facepager: http://www.ls1.ifkw.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/keyling_till/software.html Twython at: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython KNIME: https://www.knime.org/ with the Palladian Extension (obtained via the app). Instructions on set up here: http://tech.knime.org/wiki/how-to-get-twitter-data-into-knime . Using the Twitter nodes from the extension menu provided by KNIME is muchContinue reading “A list of tools to capture Twitter data”