During the recent elections in Senegal a website aggregated Tweets, Facebook comments, video and blogs to provide realtime feedback. The site was created by Cheik Fall @cypher007 who was interviewed (in French) by the Information Sciences & Techniques Study Centre, attached to the University of Dakar. Read more about it here. (Thanks to @hapeeg for the links) And thanks to @ethanz for this overview of African Social networks.
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MONITORING ELECTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA IN SENEGAL
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