Figure 4
Most popular hashtags in 4 countries. Most frequent Twitter hashtags during the Arab Spring in Egypt (upper left), Bahrain (upper right), Morocco (lower left), and Qatar (lower right). Each panel shows the percent of a day’s tweets which contain at least one of the hashtags indicated in that country’s legend. Hashtags were chosen by determining which were most often the most common hashtag on a given day across all days in the period of study and tracking the 4 most common overall.