A colleague at UBC pointed out this striking visualization of the network of retweets at the time of Mubarak’s resignation on February 11.
Computer scientist André Panisson collected an hour’s worth of retweets with the hashtag #jan25.
It was very interesting to see, in real time, the exact moment when Tahrir Square, from a mass protest demonstration, has been transformed in a giant party, and the burst in the Twitter’s activity. It was like covering in real time a virtual event, a big event that was happening in the Twitter virtual world.
The visualization illustrates how fast the information of Mubarak’s resignation spread via Twitter.
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