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News of Julian Assange's arrest spread quickly. We analyzed the first 72 minutes' worth of tweets following the arrest containing both "Assange" and a link to a website other than Twitter (29632 tweets from 23996 accounts) and categorized them by site linked.
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The official announcement of Assange's arrest from the Metropolitan Police spread first, followed by RT's coverage (Ruptly was notably the only outlet to get video), followed by various Western sites and Wikileaks itself.
(907 accounts excluded due to no retweet relationships.)
(907 accounts excluded due to no retweet relationships.)
What about bots? Of 23996 accounts, 2101 (8.8%) are mostly/fully automated based on 24/7 activity or app/service usage; these accounts posted 3202 of 29362 tweets (10.9%.) An additional 598 accounts (2.5%) automate some of their tweets, including 861 Assange tweets (2.9%).
