Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the Post-election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter

The Iranian presidential election and its post-events was the most engaging topic of the year 2009 among Twitter users. In this paper, we study the social network among the users that were engaged in that topic during an 18 month period of observation. We analyze the content of tweets that were published in English or Persian by Iranian people or others around the world and extract the most trending topics in critical days. We also study the sub-communities.

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