Tag Archives: Bin Laden

The Crazy Life of a Tweet

 Posted on October 15, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading →

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The OBL:-) Voting Options

 Posted on October 11, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

Note: Voting will remain open until the end of #IR12. Thanks for the idea of posting the ballot Sarah! Tweet #OBL:-) plus the number of the Tweet you think is funniest.                   … Continue reading →

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Bin Laden Tweets Take Center Stage at AoIR

 Posted on October 10, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

On Tuesday, October 11th, Texifter Founder and CEO, Stu Shulman, will be attending the annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Seattle, Washington.  The Twelfth Annual AoIR Conference (you can follow it on Twitter @ #IR12) brings together … Continue reading →

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22,348 bin Laden Tweets: Coded!

 Posted on September 29, 2011 by Josh Sowalsky

It took all of three days for 27 individuals from around the country (and maybe the world) to collectively code 22,348 Tweets that mentioned Osama bin Laden, following his assassination. This crowdsourcing feat, sponsored by the Qualitative Data Analysis Program … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing bin Laden Humor

 Posted on September 23, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

This Saturday, Texifter will begin its first foray into crowdsourcing, the relatively new phenomenon made possible by complex and fast information networks. Crowdsourcing seeks to tap the collective intellect of a large group to find a result instead of relying … Continue reading →

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Bin Laden, Oil & Foreign Policy

 Posted on July 14, 2011 by Joseph Delfino

Immediately following President Obama’s speech on the evening of May 1 confirming the execution of Osama bin Laden, the DiscoverText team began collecting all twitter posts which contained the key words “Osama,” and “Bin Laden.”  The bin Laden project collected … Continue reading →

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Dwindling Osama bin Laden Tweets and the RT Champs

 Posted on June 1, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

The running count in my DiscoverText “bin Laden” project is ~4.5 million unsharable Tweets. Though we can’t share them, we can describe them. One of the interesting features of this dataset is the rapidly dwindling Tweet rate over the month … Continue reading →

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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting

 Posted on May 4, 2011 by Stuart Shulman

On the May 1, 2011 evening it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, we started running repeated fetches against the Twitter API for the terms “osama” and “bin laden”. On May 3, we posted more than 1.2 … Continue reading →

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