Web Ecology's study on Twitter in Iran

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Monday, June 29, 2009 - 8:19 PM Share

I am on the road this week, so blogging will be really light. For now, let me draw your attention to a new study of Twitter's role in Iran (or, rather, Twitter's role in discussing events in Iran) from the Web Ecology Project affiliated with the Berkman Center at Harvard. Their key findings below - here is a link to their PDF report.

From 7 June 2009 until the time of publication (26 June 2009), we have recorded 2,024,166 tweets about the election in Iran.

Approximately 480,000 users have contributed to this conversation alone.

59.3% of users tweet just once, and these users contribute 14.1% of the total number

The top 10% of users in our study account for 65.5% of total tweets.

1 in 4 tweets about Iran is a retweet of another user’s content.