%0 Report %1 twitteriranelection %A Beilin, Jonathan %A Blake, Matt %A Cowell, Mac %A Fisher, David %A Gilbert, Sam %A Hanson, Russell %A Hwang, Tim %A Leavitt, Alex %A Marra, Greg %A McSwiggen, Colin %A Rood, Dharmishta %A Shaw, Aaron %A Tobia, Frank %A Woodworth, Seth %D 2009 %K election iran iranelection polonsky socialnetworks socialsoftware twitter web2.0 %T The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days %U http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/06/iran-election-on-twitter/ %X The political events that transpired during and after the 2009 Iranian election garnered global attention, particulary due to the purported importance of Twitter. As a platform- independent service for communication, Twitter has become a preferred vehicle to broadcast unfolding events in Iran both within the country and to an international audience. The use of Twitter to communicate about these events is a striking instance of the memetic spread of behaviors and ideas online.

@techreport{twitteriranelection, abstract = { The political events that transpired during and after the 2009 Iranian election garnered global attention, particulary due to the purported importance of Twitter. As a platform- independent service for communication, Twitter has become a preferred vehicle to broadcast unfolding events in Iran both within the country and to an international audience. The use of Twitter to communicate about these events is a striking instance of the memetic spread of behaviors and ideas online. }, added-at = {2010-01-25T13:24:56.000+0100}, author = {Beilin, Jonathan and Blake, Matt and Cowell, Mac and Fisher, David and Gilbert, Sam and Hanson, Russell and Hwang, Tim and Leavitt, Alex and Marra, Greg and McSwiggen, Colin and Rood, Dharmishta and Shaw, Aaron and Tobia, Frank and Woodworth, Seth}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ba947276ca629f72935d8fb28d0c6146/yish}, interhash = {4ef06cd3e956a52024195e1a2699e842}, intrahash = {ba947276ca629f72935d8fb28d0c6146}, keywords = {election iran iranelection polonsky socialnetworks socialsoftware twitter web2.0}, timestamp = {2010-01-25T13:24:56.000+0100}, title = {The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days}, url = {http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/06/iran-election-on-twitter/}, year = 2009 }