{"id":1639,"date":"2011-02-22T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:03:38","slug":"twitter-isnt-really-taking-off-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/twitter-isnt-really-taking-off-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter isn&#8217;t really taking off in Libya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trendsmap.com\/\">Trendsmap.com<\/a> is a facinating service, outlining what beeing twitted around the world. In Libya, a contry in the midst of a revolution against dictator Gaddafi, they&#8217;re right now tweeing about &#8220;Tripoli&#8221;, &#8220;Gaddafi&#8221; and &#8220;Feb17&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the volume doesn&#8217;t seem impressive. Only some 3-4 tweets have mentioned the trending Gaddafi for the past half hour. And three of those are actually the same tweet, only re-tweeted. \u00a0Look at this screen-dump, and <a href=\"http:\/\/trendsmap.com\/\">try out the service yourself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billede-91.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1640\" title=\"Libyan tweets right now\" src=\"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billede-91-590x265.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billede-91-590x265.png 590w, https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billede-91-196x88.png 196w, https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Billede-91.png 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tweets in north Africa and southern Europe. Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Twitter has helped revolutions elsewhere. But apparently not so in Libya. At least not right now.<\/p>\n<p>This surely reflects severe restrictions on the use of the Internet by the Gaddafi regime. Though Tunisia, Libyas right-hand neighbour seems quite as well. (As opposed to the Egyptians who seems very active). Maybe Twitter isn&#8217;t that widespread in Liberia? <a href=\"http:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/world-map-no-facebook-in-libya-like-in-cairo-and-tunisia\/\">Facebook for sure isn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trendsmap.com is a facinating service, outlining what beeing twitted around the world. In Libya, a contry in the midst of a revolution against dictator Gaddafi, they&#8217;re right now tweeing about &#8220;Tripoli&#8221;, &#8220;Gaddafi&#8221; and &#8220;Feb17&#8221;. But the volume doesn&#8217;t seem impressive. Only some 3-4 tweets have mentioned the trending Gaddafi for the past half hour. And&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/twitter-isnt-really-taking-off-in-libya\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">L\u00e6s mere &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter isn&#8217;t really taking off in Libya?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,9],"tags":[326,37,329,325,328,327,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}