A Social Media Analysis of the turkish 卐 #Nazialmanya attack
You may have seen something really strange going on on Twitter this night: a LOT (really a lot) of account posting… in Turkish, with a swastika in their status…
Here is an example:
Rough translation of the content is as follows:
卐 # Nazialmanya👌 # Nazihollanda
This is a small one # OSMANLITOKADI
# 16 to see you on April
I wrote Nemi TURKISH LEARN #RT
But Amnesty International is not alone…
A political statement shared with thousands of accounts around the world…
If you really want to know what is happening between Holland and Turkey you can take a look at this very good article of the Washington Post.
But how many, and where? Here is a little analysis using Crimson Hexagon’s HelioSight™, the platform we partnered with in my italian company The Fool, dealing with Social Media Monitoring and Data Analysis.
Scope of Analysis
We searched the entire Twitter firehose with keywords “卐 #Nazialmanya #Nazihollanda” for the last 24 hours, with no language filter and no geographic filter.
The research found a whopping 10,627 posts containing our keywords within the firehose, with a peak of more than 6,000 conversations around 8:00 GMT+1.
Audience and Hacked Accounts
Targeted accounts seem to be mainly US citizens (~30%), followed by United Kingdom (~10%) and Spain.
Some notable accounts are involved (some tweets were removed at the time of checking):
Top involved accounts
And here is a list of the most follower users involved in the conversation about the hack itself or “hacked”:
