The impeachment vote in tweets: #CoronaTrial

Maria A. Ressa, Russell Shepherd

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By Russell Shepherd and Maria A. Ressa

This is the entire community of Twitter users who used #CoronaTrial on May 29, 2012. It is a network based and visual analysis of the social media conversation on judgment day of the Corona Impeachment Trial. 

You can zoom in to explore the communities that formed around each account and see how they link to others. This map may take a while to load because of the large data sets. 

 

This is a social network analysis based visualization of data collected from Twitter during the 44th and last day of the impeachment trial of former Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. May 29, 2012 was the day the senator-judges gave their judgment – shown live on radio, television and the internet. What you see above is a network connecting users who retweeted or tweeted-at each other using #CoronaTrial, the hashtag used by 3 news organizations – Philippine Daily Inquirer, TV5’s social media accounts, and Rappler.

For the full picture of how this community using #CoronaTrial fits into the larger Filipino Twitter community, click here for an analysis of frequency of tweets and to see the main influencers using this hashtag.
 
Click here to see the entire community which used #CJonTrial.

 

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Maria A. Ressa

Maria Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for more than 37 years. As Rappler's co-founder, executive editor and CEO, she has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. For her courage and work on disinformation and 'fake news,' Maria was named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, was among its 100 Most Influential People of 2019, and has also been named one of Time's Most Influential Women of the Century. She was also part of BBC's 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 and Prospect magazine's world's top 50 thinkers, and has won many awards for her contributions to journalism and human rights. Before founding Rappler, Maria focused on investigating terrorism in Southeast Asia. She opened and ran CNN's Manila Bureau for nearly a decade before opening the network's Jakarta Bureau, which she ran from 1995 to 2005. She wrote Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia, From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism, and How to Stand up to a Dictator.