#unlk: Archive and visualisation of tweets on Sri Lanka at HRC’s 22nd Session
27
Mar, 2013
The 22nd regular session of the Human Rights Council was held from
25 February to 22 March 2013 at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
As Groundviews did
with conversations on Twitter over Sri Lanka during the UPR sessions
last year, we
archived every single tweet from Thursday, 21st February 2013 to Tuesday, 26th
March 2013 with the #unlk hashtag.
After
tossing around several options for a good hashtag over email, #unlk was
circulated globally by leading websites, activists, local and international HR
organisations, journalists and others before the start of the HRC’s 22nd
Session, to facilitate the creation of this archive.
We
used Martin Hawskey’s new TAGS v5 template with Twitter’s Developer
API and Google Docs to archive every single #unlk tweet.
There
are 6056
tweets in the archive, which include retweets as well.
The
peaks correspond to the times and dates which either the #unlk hashtag was
promoted globally as a means to capture conversations around sri Lanka at the
HRC, when a Government representative was speaking at the sessions in Geneva and
when Sri Lanka was being discussed at the Sessions or during a side event. The
final peak is around the time the US Resolution was taken up for voting at the
HRC.
Top
tweeters during the time #unlk was active are shown below.
Download
the archive as an Excel spreadsheet here.
A
completely searchable archive of the tweets, hosted online, can be accessed here or by clicking the image below.
A
data visualisation of the 6,000+ tweets can be viewed here, or by clicking the image below. Be
warned - given the size of the archive, the visualisation will consume
a lot of CPU and memory resources. Opening this on anything other than a very
powerful PC or Mac with lots of RAM will possibly crash your browser.
