The geographical and geopolitical context of #IStandWithPutin
In the first days of March the hashtag #IStandWithPutin was the number 1 trending hashtag on Twitter. As the use of this hashtag faded away almost as quickly as it appeared, it proved to be an interesting case to analyse the geographical and geopolitical context of the tweets, topics and people that were being discussed during this twitterstorm. As a dataset we used 73,188 tweets, posted between 23-01-2021 and 28-03-2022.
Number of tweets by date
Number of tweets by date and by language
Most used languages
English: 44,255
Unidentified: 22,251
Hindi: 1,102
Russian: 999
German: 999
Italian: 516
Ethiopian: 388
Indonesian: 353
Chinese: 320
Urdu: 277
Spanish: 256
Occurrences of name of the countries in hashtags
Russian Federation 6,487
Ukraine 6,342
United States of America 1,444
Belarus 1,402
India 649
China 492
Germany 349
Israel 261
Serbia 174
Iraq 141
Syrian Arab Republic 140
Pakistan 129
Afghanistan 117
Libya 79
Yemen 62
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 55
Poland 52
Netherlands 50
Turkey 45
Canada 39
Occurence of named entities - Place (entities)
russia 10,466
ukraine 6,964
us 3,802
usa 2,542
india 2,512
america 2,222
iraq 1,088
europe 750
afghanistan 730
syria 703
libya 676
china 624
israel 591
africa 578
palestine 483
uk 373
pakistan 341
u.s. 325
west 293
united states 262
Most often co-occurring hashtags (normalised - lowercase)
istandwithrussia 24,099
ukraine 5,865
russianukrainianwar 5,852
russia 5,636
putin 4,741
ukrainerussiawar 3,271
ukrainerussianwar 2,810
russiaukraine 2,761
russian 2,139
stopputinnow 2,093
stopnato 1,788
Occurence of named entities - Person (context annotation)
Vladimir Putin 41,031
Volodymyr Zelensky 3,167
Joe Biden 2,059
Narendra Modi 783
Donald Trump 372
Tulsi Gabbard 295
Emmanuel Macron 198
Boris Johnson 183
Barack Obama 181
Alexander Lukashenko 179
Nelson Mandela 165
Justin Trudeau 160
Elon Musk 125
Ursula von der Leyen 115
Imran Khan 113
George Galloway 100
Jungkook 94
Arnab Goswami 94
Kamala Harris 92
Shah Rukh Khan 87
Occurence of named entities - Person (entities)
putin 6,011
dr. gideon polya 829
biden 482
nato 480
vladimir putin 279
potus 268
russians 257
president putin 248
hitler 228
americans 214
trump 186
zelensky 158
joe biden 143
africans 108
kremlin 79
obama 74
dr. saif al-islam gaddafi 62
modi 57
istandwithputin 55
jungkook 54
For an in-depth analysis of the hashtag and the types of posts that were featured you can read this thread on Twitter.