Conference twitter at ISSRM2018

Analysis of conference twitter for ISSRM2018

I attended the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) in Snowbird, Utah. It was a great conference in a great location!

To look at one aspect of the event I collected tweets that used the conference hashtag - #ISSRM2018. Here’s what I found.

Tweet Frequency

The conference ran from June 17 through 22. During the conference 930 tweets were collected using the hashtag #ISSRM2018

Some tweets were retweets and some were original material.

The breakdown was:

396 original tweets (43%)

534 retweets (57%)

The most retweeted tweet was:

“RT @GeogJulie: Excited to launch our new book The Human Dimensions of Forest & Tree Health at the #ISSRM2018 today! @THAPBI @TreeHealthNews @CCRI_UK” https://twitter.com/GeogJulie/status/1009185468397674497

The most retweeted user was @KathyEHalvorsen.

The top 10 tweeters:

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Tweet Time

The day that people tweeted.

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and the time.

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Hastags in use

  Hashtag          # of occurances
 1 #issrm2018         397
 2 #humandimensions    14
 3 #scicomm             8
 4 #issrm2019           7
 5 #utah                7
 6 #resilience          6
 7 #socialscience       6
 8 #academicmama        5
 9 #conservation        5
10 #consocsci           5

Mentions

    Mentioned       # of mentions
 1 @info_iasnr        120
 2 @mtu_socialsci      27
 3 @mturesearch        23
 4 @kathyehalvorsen    13
 5 @metcalf_lab        12
 6 @umcfc               9
 7 @energy_subject      7
 8 @libbymetcalf        7
 9 @nalininadkarni      7
10 @snowbird            7
Scott Ogletree
Scott Ogletree
Lecturer in Landscape and Wellbeing