[P2P-F] Fwd: THailand- 7.5 million tweets in just 24 hours. December 1, 2013 was a day of massive political protests on the streets of Bangkok.

[Michel Bauwens]

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*Subject:* 7.5 million tweets in just 24 hours. December 1, 2013 was a day
of massive political protests on the streets of Bangkok.



Avant d'arrêter momentanément mon attention portée à la Thaïlande, voici un
rapport très intéressant sur le rôle des media sociaux dans ce pays. Quel
est le rapport avec le 'nouveau' phénomène politique dont j'ai parlé à
plusieurs reprises ces derniers jours? Certes, une étude récente remarquée
compare le phénomène Facebook à une épidémie/infection sur base d'un modèle
dans le secteur de la santé. Selon l'auteur, le phénomène Facebook
'devrait' s'arrêter dans quelques années seulement. J'aurais une tendance
intuitive à le croire.

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*95.5 million mobile phones out of a population of 67 million* is a big
number indeed. How many of them are active on social networks?

*The people of Thailand are addicted to social networks
<http://www.techinasia.com/thais-addicted-social-media/>*. There are 24
million users on
Facebook<http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-thailand-grows-to-24-million-users-infographic/>in
the country, and a mall in Bangkok is the most
instagramed place<http://www.techinasia.com/facebook-thailand-grows-to-24-million-users-infographic/>in
the world. Twitter has fallen off the radar recently, but that doesn't
mean it's not popular in Thailand.

ThaiTrend <http://www.lab.in.th/thaitrend/>, which collects information on
Twitter in the nation, has revealed that throughout 2013 there were *more
than 1.7 billion tweets
<https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418307916169347072> in the Thai
language.* Those were tweeted by 1.73 million users. Of those 1.7 billion
tweets <https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418310720644595713>, there
were 800 million new tweets, 450 million mentions, and *150 million
conversations (replies*).

Throughout the whole of 2013, there were 450,000 new
subscribers<https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418311018746372096>who
tweeted at least once. ThaiTrend claims that there's 45
percent more Twitter usage and 35 percent user
growth<https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418318876451954688>on
Twitter in Thailand in the past year, compared to 2012.

*December 1, 2013, was the day with the highest number of tweets posted in
Thai - a total 7.5 million tweets in just 24 hours. That was a day of
massive political protests
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/01/thailand-protest-yingluck-shinawatra-violence>
on the streets of Bangkok*.

On average, there were about 4.5
million<https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418313212501577728>tweets
sent out per day in Thai. However, during school breaks or holidays,
the number of Twitter messages often shot up to five to six million tweets
per day.

In terms of Thai Twitter
demographics<https://twitter.com/thaitrend/status/418313841533927424>,
35 percent of users are school age, while the other 65 percent are of
working age. *ThaiTrend claims that most Thai people on Twitter are on the
social network to follow stars and celebrities.*

http://www.techinasia.com/thailands-twitterers-tweeted-17-billion-messages-2013-45/



ar



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