State media outlet The Paper just published an analysis of the #TheGreatTranslationMovement #大翻译运动 Twitter campaign.
Here are some of the top takeaways. 🧵
Here are some of the top takeaways. 🧵
TLDR: Chinese state media ran an analysis on accounts that have been interacting with @TGTM_Official between March & April.
They conclude that it has failed to break out of an anti-CCP Chinese-speaking echo chamber & has little influence.
They conclude that it has failed to break out of an anti-CCP Chinese-speaking echo chamber & has little influence.
They acknowledge that it is a decentralized movement, but through their analysis have identified the most active accounts in the campaign.
This includes jumping into non-official Telegram groups to monitor the conversations taking place in them.
This includes jumping into non-official Telegram groups to monitor the conversations taking place in them.
They also conducted natural language processing analysis of the top 100 most engaged Twitter accounts and found that 65% of the 6K+ posts they made were "negative about China".
More than a third of these top 100 accounts follow @voaChinese, @dw_Chinese & @RFA_Chinese, they note.
More than a third of the accounts are also followers of "well-known anti-Chinese Twitter accounts" such as @Inty and @lelefarley.
More than a third of the accounts are also followers of "well-known anti-Chinese Twitter accounts" such as @Inty and @lelefarley.
Of the top 100 Twitter accounts interacting with @TGTM_Official, 52 tweets in Chinese, 41 in English and 4 in Japanese
But, they note, 90% of these accounts have also posted in Chinese, leading them to the conclusion that the movement hasn't broken out of the anti-CCP Chinese diaspora and therefore hasn't been successful in reaching its intended audience.
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