How Africa Tweets 2018
Portland’s fourth study into ‘How Africa Tweets’ has found African governments are not immune from: fake news, the rise of bots and external influence.
The Reality of Fake News in Kenya
Our research provides the first ever data on the prevalence and impact of fake news in Kenya.
When does Twitter noise become influential?
Africa, known as the ‘mobile continent’, has leapt from a basis of verbal communication to the possibility of 4G in under 10 years, with social media becoming key to understanding influence and the shaping of the continent’s future. Our latest ‘How Africa Tweets’ study aimed to do just that by offering different perspective on how […]
Politics and the Twitter Revolution
According to our ‘How Africa Tweets’ study, political hashtags make up 8.67% of all hashtags across the African continent. This proportion is higher than in the US, UK, France and Canada, which is perhaps suggestive of a more politically engaged population in Africa, or perhaps it is due to the lack of freedom of speech […]
How Africa Tweets 2016
Portland analysed the top 5,000 hashtags of 1.6 billion geo-located tweets originating from Africa during 2015, as part of our third “How Africa Tweets”.
How Africa Tweets 2014
Portland analysed geo-located tweets originating from Africa during the final three months of 2013.
How Africa Tweets 2013
The key role of Twitter in the people’s revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia a year ago is well documented. Young people embraced the immediacy and freedom of the new social networking system to escape the constraints of censorship and the security apparatus, to organise and communicate. The vital part that Twitter played in bringing down […]