The above map shows mobile tweeting near the site of the Occupy Wall Street Movement after the police 'broke up the movement' under a general assembly meeting. The massive concentration of tweets overshadow anything else going on in New York, showing that rather than breaking the movement up the raid has raised focus on it. This was created with out clima.me mapping tool for twitter
One element we have observed in web enabled protests is the ability of the Internet to refocus movements after attempts at traditional crack downs. Police forces seem to have not fully grasped that their ability to break a movement has been undermined by mobile phones and the Internet. Clearly this has happened in New York. The level of mass tweeting around the site of the Occupy Wall Street movement is like nothing we have seen during the entire movement. In a world where almost everyone can be a citizen journalist linked to the world a raid like this can be exploited by a movement to gain sympathy and support.
Every Web 3.0 metric we are seeing tells up that rather than breaking the Occupy Wall Street movement the police raids have vastly increased this appeal and profile:
- More active on twitter hashtags,
- More positive statements of support vs negative (particularly more people supporting their right to protest),
- More tweeting from around the location event,
- More check in to venue services like foursquare related to the event.
Occupy Wall Street has trended as a foursquare venue every night for the past weeks, but after the raid it reached 50 check ins, several times higher than any other venue in New York this evening. This means that at least 50+ foursquare users are near the area and have decided to check in, over the night probably a few hundred. Though not a fully scientific survey of participation such high levels of Fourquare participation are often very indicative of high levels of public interest, and combined with the map of tweets near the site it is clear a lot of people are there now, they are online with mobile devices, and they are supportive of Occupy movement. Combine this with the chatter on social networks like the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet and it is impossible to escape the conclusion that the movement has been strengthened in the eyes of people of New York and general public.
Old powers, like Egypt and Wall Street, simply have failed to learn that this is a new world, one where simple methods of mass bullying of the population simply no longer work as well. In the case of New York it is unimaginable that the city will be able to carry its repression to the point of Syria or Bahrain, so the conclusion that the city will have to retreat on this seem inevitable.
RT @SKYENICOLAS Dear Jay-Z & @UncleRUSH, THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MERCHANDIZED! #OccupyWallStreet #Quote #OWS
Xfilespoker Tom Dwyer
Making a Quilt of OWS pics Photographers covering #OWS #Occupywallstreet, can you please get in touch with Big Daddy? #99% new web site
liteguru Chad Settlemier
Watch: #OccupyWallStreet, #Broadcasting #Live | #NewsFeed | #TIME.com #Ustream #TimPool #www.wearetheother99.compost.ly/3uZoT
JCTHABLA JCT
RT @zachzill: Just took over the lobby of a Brookfield bldg! Owners of zucotti #OWS #occupywallstreet #OccupyDC
JCTLEAKS JCT
RT @zachzill: Just took over the lobby of a Brookfield bldg! Owners of zucotti #OWS #occupywallstreet #OccupyDC
Veryspcguy William Clarke
JCTLOVE JCTLOVE
RT @zachzill: Just took over the lobby of a Brookfield bldg! Owners of zucotti #OWS #occupywallstreet #OccupyDC
TheGr8Brettski Brett How Lee
Probably 200+ policemen huddled together at #OccupyWallStreetsome in riot gear some not. Kind of scary.
datsfoul robert townsend
Ok this dude is back at the gym smelling like he's been at #occupywallstreet since day one!
capdc Jeff Schroeffel
Go home Occupy! Go home losers! No one wants you in our cities. Go home Occupy! #ows #occupywallstreet #occupywallst
AKStanfield Andy Stanfield
ALL police departments need external review boards of civilians, NOT COPS. Who will guard us from the guardians? #occupywallstreet
OccupySecession #OccupySecession
24AheadDotCom Immigration,Politics
Of course, fundamental #OccupyWallStreet #PunkLogic problem is that they think only they have rights, U.S. consensus doesn't matter. #tlot
DC_OO7 Change Agent
TT @SpeakerBoehner: By opposing #GOP agenda #4top1percentPOTUS has passed up another chance to [cave in to us]. #teaparty #occupywallstreet
The_Occupus Jean Rousseau
Is #Congress using insider information to trade stocks? | bit.ly/tnlNDI| #occupywallstreet #99percent
DrGlenBarry Dr. Glen Barry
More at stake with #OccupyWallStreet than freedom of speech, also right to assemble
OccupyALaMode OccupyALaMode
this freedom shit has a lot of rules that don't really make me feel all that free.. #occupymedia #occupytogether #occupywallstreet
2NewEarthRising New Earth Rising
More at stake with #OccupyWallStreet than freedom of speech, also right to assemble
EcoInternet Ecological Internet
More at stake with #OccupyWallStreet than freedom of speech, also right to assemble
oldforests Old Forest Wisdom
More at stake with #OccupyWallStreet than freedom of speech, also right to assemble
Veryspcguy William Clarke
SusannahTasanee Susannah Tantemsapya
Photo: Taken with Instagram at #OCCUPYWALLSTREETtmblr.co/Z8QfVyB_Tl0y
Harlem19therare Daniel (Harlem19)
RT @brentnhunter: Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King #occupywallstreet
24AheadDotCom Immigration,Politics
What #OccupyWallStreet #PunkLogic doesn't get is that if they don't like the rules, there are processes *still in place* to change them. #p2
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MikeG2001 Mike G.
RT @EricWeinrib: Just a reminder of what @MikeBloomberg thinks of #OccupyWallStreet. Taken this morning at 3am. #OWSyfrog.com/nxfadynj
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