As of Wednesday, there were nearly a million tweets on the platform hashtagged
“#iranelection.” Although it’s impossible to say exactly what portion
of them came from Americans, it’s a safe claim nevertheless that a
significant number of Americans evidently care about the events in
Iran—and would have been practically glued to their television
screens had the cable channels given them something worth watching.
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It can't be 1 billion. Mashable article -- http://mashable.com/2009/06/17/iranelection-crisis-numbers/ -- said 1 million. There have been just over 2 billion ever.
Posted by Rich Danielson on Fri 19 Jun 2009 at 11:25 PM
Thanks, Rich. The text has been updated to reflect the 1 million number. (The confusion came from an error in the Curry tweet originally quoted in this article: "Mashable.com reporting,'we're approaching one billion tweets on the situation' in #iranelection.")
Posted by Megan Garber on Sat 20 Jun 2009 at 03:12 PM