Diffusion of protest information in twitter during shahbag movement of bangladesh

ABSTRACT The advent of social media and microblogging tools, particularly Twitter, has been used by the protesters during worldwide social movements as the means of organization, communication and diffusion of protest information. Key protesters play significant roles in the information diffusion process and influence the protest network by disseminating specific types of information. The focus of this work is to investigate how information diffusion takes place in Twitter during social movement. To understand the phenomenon, this poster analyses the tweets of Shahbag Movement of Bangladesh and seeks answers to these questions: who are the influential protesters, what are the properties of the protesters’ information sharing behavior. Ultimately, it is founded that the instrumental protesters represent the citizens, journalists and not the government officials. This poster also finds that the protesters demonstrate information cascade behavior during disseminating protest information into the network.