Archive of #WCY2014MR: A youth focussed Twitter Q&A with the President
Image courtesy the President’s Twitter account
Image courtesy the President’s Twitter account
On the occasion of the World Conference on Youth 2014, the President Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa announced over social media he would have, and not for the first time, a Twitter Q&A on Thursday, 8th May at 11.30am. We archived the entire conversation, conducted under the hashtag#WCY2014MR.
At the end of the session, a data visualisation of the tweets posted to the President looked like this. The image shows that while many opted to ask the President a question by addressing him on Twitter (@presrajapaksa is a verified account) many others opted to just use the #WCY2014MR hashtag.
Soon after the President concluded the Q&A session, a little over an hour after it began, the archive featured over 1,300 unique tweets, and a combined total, with retweets, of close to 3,000 tweets for the session.
Revealingly, not a single one of the most retweeted questions during the session, posed to the President by three leading journalists in Sri Lanka, were answered.
