Twitter as a multilingual space: The articulation of the Tunisian revolution through #sidibouzid
by Thomas Poell and Kaouthar Darmoni Introduction Some journalists in the popular press have labelled the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt as Twitter or Facebook revolutions. Similar claims were made concerning the 2009 election protests in Moldova and Iran.[1] The millions of tweets with the hashtag #iranelection, #sidibouzid, or #egypt, as well as a number of extremely popular […]