1. Gezi Parki and Social Media Trends
#occupygezi
June 1st, 2013
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2. Table of Contents
 Traditional Media vs. Social Media
 Rise of the social media during troubled times
 Trending #hashtags and frequently tweeted words
 Gezi Park related tweets by country
 Top influencers
 Two influential photos
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3. Traditional media vs. Social media coverage
May 31, 2013 - Turkey
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Turkish Social Media Turkish TV Channels

4. Number of tweets in Turkey tripled on May 31st
(25M average tweets per day vs. 8M tweets)
6/2/2013Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro 4
Number of Tweets from Turkey (May 18- June 1 2013)
25M
8M

5. Tweets poured in across the clock
Turkey was up and tweeting well into the night
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Midnight
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
Number of Tweets from Turkey by the hour (May 30th- June1st)
Week of May 27th- Thurs-Sat tweets
Previous week –Thurs-Sat tweets

6. Resist Gezi Park generated 4.5M+ tweets over three days
6/2/2013Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro - 28/5/2013 - 1/6/2013 4:50 pm PST 6
Trending Hashtags (5/28-6/1)
Trending Hashtags English Translation Number of Tweets
#DirenGeziParki Resist Gezi Park 4,468,512
#OccupyGezi Occupy Gezi 1,093,582
#TayyipIstifa Resign Tayyip 402,402
#BuBirSivilDirenis This is a civil resistance 364,138
#DirenAnkara Resist Ankara 357,223
#ProvokasyonaGelmiyoruz Let's avoid provocation 304,966
#OyunaGelmeTurkiyem Don't get manipulated my Turkey 235,819
#GeziParki Park Gezi 209,193

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Media
Back
Izmir
Ataturk
Tree
Ankara
Help
Tayyip
Public
Istanbul
Turkey
Please
Taksim
Police
Millions
Trending Twitter Words ( May 31-Jun 1st)
Most frequently used words in tweets from Turkey
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Translation Turkish
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
Polis
Taksim
Lutfen
Turkiye
Istanbul
Halk
Tayyip
Yardim
Ankara
Agac
Ataturk
Izmir
Geri
Medya
Most Frequently Used Words
1. Police
2. Taksim
3. Please

8. Not just Turkey but the world tweeted
Source details: Top hashtag’s tweet location info (Top hashtags used:
#DirenGeziParki, #OccupyGezi, #TayyipIstifa, #BuBirSivilDirenis, #DirenAnkara, #ProvokasyonaGelmiyoruz, #OyunaGelmeTu
em, #GeziParki)
Turkey
85%
Rest of
World
15%
% of Tweets by tweet location
% of Tweets by tweet location
% of Tweets by country
Excluding Turkey

9. Influential pictures (1/2)
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10. Influential pictures (2/2)
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11. Most Influential
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
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