A new trending hashtag, #لبنانيون_ضد_حزبالله has emerged in the past few days, following the televised resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Lebanon and the start of the Lebanese-KSA crisis. We briefly analyze the “Lebanese against Hezbollah” hashtag to better understand its origin and its propagation on Twitter. Our sample of 117 tweets…
Category: Social Media
One Year of Presidency in Lebanon – A Twitter Discussion Analysis
The Sample The following analysis is based on a sample of 11,919 tweets extracted using Twitter’s API. The search term for this sample is #سنة_من_عمر_وطن which is the “one year from a country’s life” hashtag launched by the President’s movement(s). Twitter’s Search API is focused on relevance and not completeness. This means that some Tweets…
AUB – OSB – Social Media Strategy Course 2017
I would like to thank all my guests, Mr. Rachad Saddi (EMEA Channel Partner Manager, Global Partnerships at Google), Mrs. Michèle Khalifé (Head of Marketing and Communication at Total Liban), Mrs. Rita Hayek (Actress), Mr. George Khalaf (YouTuber and Film Director) for joining in and sharing their experience with my students. Special thanks to…
The Use of Fake Profiles on Facebook for Business and Research
My presentation at the Responsible Organizations in the Global Context (ROGC) conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 15-16 June 2017 The use of fake profiles on Facebook for business and research from Nasri Messarra
K2PCenter Training
Third training session about Twitter discussion analysis at the Knowledge to Policy (#K2Pcenter) Center of the American University of Beirut. Social Graph visualization using NodeXL. Thanks for all those who joined the #k2pworkshop discussion.
Facebook Cover Template with Mobile Safe Area (2017, Photoshop)
This is the new Photoshop template for Facebook page covers. It helps create compatible layouts for both Retina Display devices and mobile devices. Usage is fairly simple. The initial display is self explanatory: the purple area is the part of the cover that will be visible on mobile. The full frame will appear on desktops….
Google+ and YouTube Icon Photoshop Template
Instructions: google-profile-photo-template
Facebook Graph: See if a person liked your posts
A quick tip to get the lists of posts (yours or someone else’s) a friend (or Facebook user) has liked: In the Facebook search bar, type: Posts by [your name] [Facebook user] likes
Sample NodeXL Twitter Graphs (to do)
Top retweeters of Wiam Wahhab by number of followers download NodeXL data for @wiamwahhab – 20162602 Twitter search for ???????? ????? NodeXL data for ?????? ?????20160226-search NodeXL Graph for ???? ?????? NodeXL data for ???? ?????? 20160202
Types of Twitter Conversations
Read the full articles of Marc A. Smith, Lee Rainie, Ben Shneiderman and Itai Himelboim here and here. Images from the articles and from the NodeXL Graph Library: Polarized Crowd