Abstract
The Iranian presidential election and its post-events was the most engaging topic of the year 2009 among Twitter users. In this paper, we study the social network among the users that were engaged in that topic during an 18 month period of observation. We analyze the content of tweets that were published in English or Persian by Iranian people or others around the world and extract the most trending topics in critical days. We also study the sub-communities.
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Down Time Rescheduled. The official Twitter blog. [online] http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html.
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Launching Facebook in Persian. The Official Facebook Blog. [online] http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=97122772130.
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Google translates Persian. The official Google Blog. [online] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-translates-persian.html.
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Top Twitter Trends of 2009. The Official Twitter Blog. [online] http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/top-twitter-trends-of-2009.html.
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A corpus is a collection of documents.
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We would like to thank Kaveh Ketabchi for his helps on collecting the dataset.
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Tabatabaei, S.A., Asadpour, M. (2014). Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the Post-election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter. In: Missaoui, R., Sarr, I. (eds) Social Network Analysis - Community Detection and Evolution. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12188-8_4
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