QUT researchers mapping the G20 Leaders' Summit as it plays out on Twitter say the number of tweets using the hashtage G20 has risen to more than one million. The exact figure at midday today was 1,009,197.
Find out what people are tweeting from inside the declared areas, or about happenings within the declared areas.
•View interactive maps. We suggest you 'view as an iFrame' in each map to make the most of the zoom feature. Check out the new maps created showing Brisbane-based Twitter activity around the arrival of Barak Obama, two delegate spotting maps, showing which leaders are being talked about in Brisbane and where they're being talked about.
•Watch the G20 Hypometer.
•More information about the project.
Update as at 12pm, Monday November 17:
G20 Hypometer
We're analysing all #G20 tweets to see what the world thinks of the leaders' summit.
Twitter leaderboard - countries most talked about, and where Australia sits in the conversation
Yesterday
1. USA
2. Russia
3. United Kingdom
Today so far (countries have stayed the same)
1. USA
2. Russia
3. United Kingdom
Hot hashtags - the top trenders (excluding #G20, #G20Brisbane)
1.#auspol
2. #Putin
3. #news
4. #Australia
On the rise - emerging hashtags
1. #Putin
2. #Ukraine
3. #IslamicState (became an emerging hashtag because an execution video was released while leaders were leaving the #G20)
G20 tweet total:
•1,009,197 since 23 October
•302,400 tweets yesterday, a new record
•84,282 tweets since midnight
G20 social media maps
In a first for any G20 event, we're mining tweets about what's happening inside the declared zones, and plotting them on four interactive maps.
Media contact:
Rose Trapnell, QUT Media team leader, 0407 585 901, media@qut.edu.au, rose.trapnell@qut.edu.au
