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Some Raw Data:

To celebrate this, the tenth blog on the Iranian Cyberwar, we thought we would show you some raw data.

First, here is a weekly snap shot of Twitter traffic regarding Iran:

(With a special thanks to flaptor (@flaptor) for his great support!)
If you take a close look, you’ll see that at 04:30 chart time on Saturday, June 13, which is 15:00 in Iran, a spike started in Twitter. At that time, the topic Iran was at a respectable showing of 0.1% of all Tweets on Twitter, but that was nothing compared to what was about to come.

The first Statistical Peak appeared on Sunday, at 9:00 AM Iran time, capturing an incredible 1.2% of all Tweets on Twitter. In a moment we will discuss just how many Tweets that figure represents.

By Tuesday, at 10 AM Iran time, that number hit 1.9% of all Tweets.  A very large number of Tweets.

According to several websites, the TOTAL activity of Twitter at that time was almost 12,000,000 tweets per hour. That’s 12 million, people. Leading to the conclusion that close to 228,000 tweets were made about Iran at that time, or 158 per minute, 2.6 PER SECOND just about Iran.

*numbers have been corrects since time of first post

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