Number of #OWS Participants in Twitter

The dataset with #ows hashtag contains approximately 5.3 million tweets contributed by 650K users between October 2011 and December 2011. The following graph shows the number of new users who posted a tweet on a given day (i.e., the users who hadn’t posted before that day):
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The graph of the cumulative number of new users (i.e., number of unique users who had posted up until the given day) is below.

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The final dataset and charts are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ash6mAvb0VyZdER3RDFaY0JFNlVWMnlqQXZGSExaRVE

 

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