Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Arab-Israeli war on social media

"Both sides are organized and active, though the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack has been used in nearly four million Twitter posts, compared with 170,000 for #IsraelUnderFire, according to Topsy, a social-media search engine."  Palestinian activists on Twitter tell me that the number for the former side is even bigger because many Palestinian supporters tweet under the latter hashtag to to get their message across in English.