The Twitterverse Responds to Protests in Egypt [STATS]




The 662 people I follow on Twitter have been talking about little else besides the protests in Cairo Friday, which continue to escalate in intensity and violence.

They are not alone. According to data pulled from real-time analytics tool Trendrr, 245,000 tweets containing “Egypt” were sent between midnight and 1:30 p.m. today, January 28. Thirty percent came from the U.S., 7% from the UK, 6% from Saudia Arabia and UAE respectively, and, notably, 8% came from Egypt, proving that users are indeed bypassing blocks placed on the service by government authorities:

Twitterers are using the service to share news and footage of the protests. Among the most shared links: a video that captured the shooting of an Egyptian protestor, Al Jazeera’s live stream coverage, and EA Worldview‘s news liveblog.

Users are frequently including the hashtags #egypt, #cairo, #mubarak, #jan28 and #censorship when discussing the protests.

In addition to tweets, 10 million new blog posts and 22,350 news results citing Egypt have been indexed by Google in the past 48 hours.

Image courtesy of Flickr, Al Jazeera

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