It's a protest -- FreeMediaVe
Chavez was shutting down radio and TV stations, and there was a protest using twitter.
When I started archivisting them there were 1500 tweets by 3a.m. August 3. The pace has been fast and furious.
Lifestream following #FreeMediaVe |
This is the lifestream of following the protest on Twitter. I hope it is adequate documentation to make clear what is going on and when.
What the Hashtag [website] started following this hashtag earlier than August 3. They have numbers of tweets beginning on 07/30 and the largest number of tweets in their records was 08/01. However, they find fewer tweets than does Archivist. So the numbers are not directly comparable. But it is evidence that the protest was already going strong before August 3.
The Archivist file collecting tweets is: FreeMediaVe-090803.xml.
The StreamGraphs picturing the dynamics of the tweeting are:
