Bin Laden Releases Another Tape

Bin Laden released an audio tape about the U.S. and the muslim world on September 13, 2009. Reports from BBC and AFP describe the release of the tape and summarize the contents.

I started Archivist about 10:00 p.m. and there were already more than 1500 twitter messages by that point. The messages went back to 8:49 p.m. September 11. This streamgraph figure shows that the most recent messaging started at 19:30.

Below is a 180 day trendistic dynamic figure of messages about Bin Laden. It gives an idea about the sporadic character of tweeting about Bin Laden.

A seven day [dynamic] figure shows that the messages about Bin Laden began before the release of the tape. They started as part of the reflection on 9/11. The release of the tape led to a second spike.

This 30 day view of mentions of Bin Laden shows both the small peak on 9/11 and the larger peak after he delivered the tape.

I have quit collecting on September 20, 2009 because the messages are no longer specifically about the tape he released. They seem to be rather general references to him. During the period there were 8800 messages about bin Laden.

On September 25, 2009 bin Laden reappeared with a video about European nations deserting the fight in Afghanistan. The micro messages popped up again, and I returned to collecting them.

bin Laden has become an environmentalist

News Alert: Bin Laden blasts U.S. for climate change
06:49 AM EST Friday, January 29, 2010
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming. In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, bin Laden warns of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a halt

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