How To Follow The Lebanese Elections On Twitter

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Nothing like twitter to follow a live process involving ordinary people. This post will hopefully help you navigate the Lebanese twittosphere to keep your fingers on the Lebanese pulse.

- First, let’s get my shameless self promotion out of the way: Do make sure you follow my own twitter account @beirutspring. I am following almost 400 Lebanese people, and keep looking to retweet interesting posts. You can also look at the people I’m following and follow them

- Make sure you’re following @sharek961 , which is a volunteer based organization that maps the Lebanese elections live on their website. @sharek961 actively retweets all the reports it’s getting from the field. (Full disclosure: I volunteered to design their site)

- Go to http://search.twitter.com and look for #lebanonelections. It sort of became the conventional tag, but some are still using #lebaneseelections and #lebelections. If your’re a twitterer yourself and want to file a report, don’t forget to tag it (who knows, we can even make it a twitter trending topic)

- Other notable Twitterers to follow: @nowlebanon , @sharek961, @meetsamer, @hibz , @LB_ELECTIONS_09 , @abuhatem .

There, I hope that was useful :)

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you re forgetting for french, libnanews is on twitter ;)

Posted by frenchy | June 7, 2009, 4:24 pm
Dear Mustapha,

In events like these I actually miss your blogging much. With twitter I have the feeling I miss many of what you say because even though I have a feed on my blog on your twitter, I just don’t check it often enough.

I miss your analysis on the blog. Especially during these important events.

:(

Kind regards,

Posted by Suzanne | June 8, 2009, 7:13 am
Mustafa, you seem to have retired from blogging, are you a seller of the blog name? am a buyer!seriously…

Posted by Fuziyad | June 12, 2009, 11:20 pm

Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.