HOW AFRICA TWEETS KEY Cities, languages and trends Outer graphs indicates Twitter activity Size of each circle over an average 24hrs in each city indicates number of tweets per city Location: 20 most populated cities in Africa AM PM Data: Geo-located tweets Inner band indicates % of most tweeted Time period: October–December 2013 00:00 06:00 12:00 18:00 24:00 languages overall

RS ALEXAN ALGIE DRIA

A C CA AN IR BL O SA GLIS CA EN H

A D D IS R A A K B A A D B A Algiers

Casablanca

N Alexandria A I O R O N Cairo A B I K 227,509

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E N Dakar S

A

J Kano S A D

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B Addis Ababa A

A Lagos Ibadan A

M Abidjan Douala SHONA SOMALI Nairobi AFAR TSONGA 123,078

HAUSA I TSWANA Accra N

E L SESOTHO Kinshasa L A 78,575 PORTUGUESE U G Dar es Salaam H O XHOSA

R S Luanda AFRIKAANS U SWAHILI K E

ZULU Johannesburg 344,215

F N A R C The number of geo-located A C E B N R R tweets from Johannesburg, A C Ekurhuleni U H more than any other city D Durban

G R U I B B S A E D N A N N A H A O RA J BIC N DO OW U T AL PE A CA

KIN A SHASA LUAND

MOST TWEETED LANGUAGES

Johannesburg

Zulu Sesotho Afrikaans Xhosa Tswana Tsonga Venda Swazi N. Sotho English

Cairo Nairobi Abidjan

English Swahili French English Arabic Portuguese

Arabic English

AVERAGE TWITTER ACTIVITY OVER 24 HRS AVERAGE TWITTER ACTIVITY OVER 7 DAYS

Twitter activity

MONDAY 00:00 01:00 23:00 02:00 TUESDAY 22:00 WEDNESDAY 03:00 21:00 THURSDAY

04:00 FRIDAY

20:00 SATURDAY

05:00 SUNDAY

19:00

PM AM 06:00 18:00

07:00 #MANDELA 17:00 The biggest spike in Twitter activity was around

08:00 the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5th. 16:00

DEC

09:00

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14:00 NOV

11:00

13:00 12:00

Twitter activity Twitter activity Twitter 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th

The graph above compares Twitter activity in the week following Mandela’s death, and the same week a month earlier.

TOP HASHTAGS

#PinkAppleHamper #KenyaAt50 #ANC #Adidas #SamsungLove

BRANDS POLITICAL #Sickat50 #Numsa

#Endomondo #Kenya #NelsonMandela

#Mandela #Zuma #SouthAfrica #MagnumAuction #Mandela #Africa #SSCricket Memorial MANDELA MISC #OperationFill #MUFC OrlandoStadium

SPORT #RIPNelsonMandela #Love #Madiba #NairobiSC

#PrayFor #BlackisBack OrlandoPirates

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