Platform Resonance Sample Study

Question

Which platforms resonate most in the news about the Iran elections? A quick sample, comparing Twitter, Youtube and Facebook.

Method

1. Query Google News for "Iran Elections" and Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, using the Google News Scraper.

Max nr. of results: 1000

Period: 29 May 09 - 29 June 09

Query:

"Iran Election" Twitter
"Iran Election" Facebook
"Iran Election" YouTube

2. Count the results and visualize the results in a Dorling Map.

Results

"Iran Election" Twitter (757)

"Iran Election" Facebook (535)

"Iran Election" Youtube (243)

Visualization

PlatformResonanceSample_Dorling.pdf: Platform Resonance Sample Dorling.pdf

Findings

Of the three platforms tested, Twitter is most often mentioned in the news about the Iran Elections 2009.

Comment

Google news results show an immense amount of copy-pasting of articles about the Iran elections:

http://tools.issuecrawler.net/beta/results/googleNews/IranPlatforms1000results29Jun09.txt (and paste in excel)

Further research suggestions

Maybe look over time, as YouTube may have grown since the Neda video upload?