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What did Twitter gain from #elect_uain Ukraine
Vitaliy Moroz, Internews Ukraine
Igor Zapadenko, Khmelnytsky portal
What is ElectUA?
- ElectUA is a brief name for All-Ukrainian Twitter Broadcasting of Presidential Elections-2010 in Ukraine;
- Streaming of all tweets with special hash tags from different regions to separate platform;
- 200+ participants as total involved;
- A project by Internews Ukraine funded by U-media project, Internews Network
What is ElectUA? Web-site:
http://electua.org/
How was it launched?
- March’09 - launch of MediaNext. The project on development of new media by EJC and Internews Ukraine #medianext_ua
- June-July’09 – conducting 1st sessions of trainings
ABC of new media. New media skills for journalists and media activists;
- Тwitter is one of key topics for teaching
Initial steps by ElectUA. Questions:
What do we plan to reach?
What is our conception/working plan?
Which hash tags do we choose?
Which people do we work with?
Launching a web-site: www.electua.org
Selection of key regions
• Initial suggestions:• • - Zakarpatska• - Ivano-Frankivska• - Zhytomyrska• - Myhailivska• - Luganska
• Final regions:
te .zp .zt .od .lg
Selection of participants
• Launching al blog electua.blogspot.com• Registration of120 participants throught Google Docs
Promotion in new media - Тwitter
Working account:
@medianext_ua + #elect_test and later #elect_ua
Personal account of Internews Ukraine staff:
@insider_ua @didych @npedchenko
+ official account of project @elect_ua
Promotion: group in Facebook
Promotion: Initiatives by participants. Blogs
Promotion: Initiatives by participants
Promotion: Initiatives by participants
Twitter-workshops for other users beside the project
Promotion: Initiatives by participants
Export of twi-feeds #elect_ua on www.elect.ua and other web-sites
Example: www.proskurov.info
Promotion: Initiatives by participants
Team of #elect_ua planned to report in both 1st and 2nd rounds of elections
Results: #elect_ua became official hash tag of elections in Ukraine
Just after 1st round by popularity
Results: #elect_ua became key hashtag of elections in Ukraine
#elect_ua was used by many others users, not just participants
Results: #elect_ua became official hash tag of elections in Ukraine
…someone became to spam - to use #elect_ua for any other events but not elections
It show #elect_ua became popular
Positive feedback
Positive feedback
Results of 1st round Number of links in: Yandex – 5451, Google – 4 660
Results of 2nd round: Number of links on #elect_sos: Yandex –374
#elect_sos marks tweets related to attempts of election fraud and how to avoid it
Results of 1 round. Discussion on number of tweets
How do search engines work and which data do they provide?
Results of 1 round: Discussion on number of tweets
During 2nd round of elections – about 15 000 unique tweets
As of March 2010 – 18 840 unique tweets
and 20 000 – of all posts in blogs
We chose best participants…
…based on:
- Twi reports
- Photo and video
- tweets on abuses
#elect_sos
What did Twitter gain from ElectUA?
• Development if social skills of participants • More wider use of hash tags• Raised interest to social issues like elections and
accountability• Closer ties among twi-people• Your opinion?
(we asked participants of ElectUA during follow-up meeting)
- Interest in social media in the regions - Merging between old and new media
- Showed how politicians use Twitter
What did Twitter gain from ElectUA?
• As a resource to inform audience, links to auidience• Instrument to observe – watchdog• Help from audience in hard situations on polling stations• Informing – to see the whole situation through Twitter• Interest from abroad – US, Canada• Chance to spread news immediately• Links between Twitter and “serious” media
ElectUA after 2010. What is next?
• Wave of civic activism on the local level (public events, flash mobs etc.) Now public could learn from local witnesses and citizen journalists;
• The experience of #elect_ua to be used in following local elections 2010-2011;
• Watchdogs for new President of Ukraine appeared – example:#nash_yanyk
Thanks!
@cvirk @vaita @alek_ya @gorodetskaya @netocrat
@ovsianik @mk_news @ezhurov @Gregor_ARK
@FART_39 @dnepryanka @MediaJourn @dancingwindy
@grebionkin @rozdum @godetsky
@neman44 @elect_dn @voinova @nizkodubova
@oko_ua @XAHAC @khanasV @ternopolyanyn @kminfo
@retwittka + dozens of Twitter users!
Thanks for attention!
Vitaliy Moroz @insider_ua @medianext_ua www.internews.ua
Igor Zapadenko @kminfo www.proskurov.info