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Which Lebanese Celebrities Are Buying Their Twitter Followers?

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Zak in LB Social, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, Social Media

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Celebrity, Marcel Ghanem, Social Media, Social network, twitter

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Who doesn’t want more followers on twitter? Every one should want more of them, especially if they are reasonably active on twitter. It’s nice to know that people want to listen to what you have to say; it massages your ego and makes you feel important when you are not a celebrity. So if you are a normal person, you usually work hard to earn followers.

But what if the tweeter (barely) is a celebrity? They cheat. Yes, cheat. Who has time really to work hard to earn these followers? Some just buy twitter followers. Not that they won’t have good number of them anyway, but they always want more, more and more of them. It makes them feel more privileged and gives them some sort of prestige – against each other.

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Is Lebanon lagging behind in digital activism and social media?

01 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by Zak in LB Social, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, Social Media

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Andy Carvin, arab spring, lebanon, Social Media, twitter

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If you are on twitter and following the Arab Spring news, you couldn’t have missed Andy Carvin - the journalist and senior strategist at NPR – who happened to be taking the lead since the start of 2011 in curating the news of the Middle East and North Africa. Andy Carvin (@acarvin) was this week in Beirut on a conference in the American University of Beirut (AUB). In an interview yesterday with The Daily Star, he expressed:

“Lebanon seems to have a Casablanca quality, where political refugees come to settle, but there’s a lack of an equivalent native class of activists. My connections within Lebanon are mostly political refugees: Syrians or Yemenis.”

He later tweeted (this morning) to say that some parts of the interview were taken out of context; he didn’t say the Lebanese online community is weak, but simply he didn’t know them. Anyway, I think the above quotation is still valid; we have not seen any main Lebanese ‘online’ participant in the AUB conference, and I am curious to know why a prominent online community organizer hasn’t come across the Lebanese online community. Here is my take, on the probable reasons:
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Lebanon’s media council – in need of regulation – ‘regulating’ others

27 Thursday Oct 2011

Posted by Zak in LB Culture, LB Politics, Lebanon, Politics

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Addounia TV, Al-Manar, Censorship, Lebanese government, lebanon, LIRA, Michel Sleiman, Press, Social Media, Stop LIRA, Tv, twitter, Walid Jumblatt

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A quasi-government Lebanese body, which is desperate for regulation and review itself, is planning to regulate the ‘electronic websites’. The National Council for Audio-Visual Media (NCAVM) announced this week its intention to create a register for websites. They didn’t specify for what type of websites and what are the criteria, though I can only speculate the initiative is targeted at the main sites that deals with news and politics, which became in the recent years as close as they can be to the ‘Main Stream Media’.

These websites would be the likes of Lebanonfiles.com, beiruobserver.com, cedarnews.net, elnashra.com, nowlebanon.com, Naharnet.com, 14march.org, Lebanonfiles.com, and many others including the websites of the main TV channels, newspapers and political parties. Saying that, media is not just ‘politics; it’s advertisement, films, entertainment, documentaries, social and cultural shows – all published or broadcasted. This move by the NCAVM to create a register has a lot of problems and unwanted consequences:

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How Almustaqbal spins the Wikileaks content

26 Monday Sep 2011

Posted by Zak in LB Politics, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, Politics, Press, Wikileaks

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Almustaqbal, Hezbollah, lebanon, March 14, Michel Aoun, Press, Saad Hariri, twitter, Wikileaks

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The Lebanese daily newspaper Almustaqbal reported today that the head of Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) General Michel Aoun referred to Hezbollah as a ‘terrorist organisation’ in one of the Wikileaks cables (06Beirut413). Other media outlets reported the story referring to Almustaqbal, and one of them was Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) where I read this piece news (on their website).

Almustaqbal newspaper is owned by the political opponent and Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. If this is true, it will be a blow to the current alliance that exists between Michel Aoun and Hezbollah.

Actually, I read this cable before Almustaqbal, and soon after its release. I decided then NOT to blog about it, as I didn’t find anything unusual or already not available in the public domain.

There is a huge amount of spin added to the reporting on Wikileaks cables. Some journalists are taking some cables out of context to serve their political inclinations and objectives. This blog aims to uncover as many cables as possible, irrespective of the political party being damaged from the leaked cable. And consequently, Lebanon Spring will ‘name and shame’ any media outlet adding their own spin to the story.
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Can we know how much a Lebanese MP spends?

02 Thursday Jun 2011

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Corruption, lebanon, twitter

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How much a Lebanese MP or politician has to steal to go to jail? Seriously, what’s the threshold of corruption in Lebanon? Is it $20K, $2m or $200m or unlimited? Continue reading »

The day I ‘unfollowed’ @Ghonim

19 Thursday May 2011

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arab spring, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jan25, twitter, Wael Ghonim

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I have been noticing that Wael Ghonim (@Ghonim) was becoming more a ‘spiritual leader’ for a revolution that was never completed. He has been recently tweeting on twitter about the need to do things that will ‘help’ the economy.

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Saudi Arabia: Freedom starts behind the wheel

12 Thursday May 2011

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Human rights, Islam, Saudi Arabia, twitter, Women rights

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Freedom protests are sweeping through the entire Arab world these days, with exact demands differing from one country to another, according to the existing freedom threshold. In Saudi Arabia, freedom starts behind the wheel. Yes, behind the wheel, as women in Saudi Arabia are still not allowed to drive, yet alone have any other human rights.
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Ossama Bin Laden death & the Arab Spring

02 Monday May 2011

Posted by Zak in Arab Spring, Arab World, Politics, USA, World

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Al-Qaeda, arab spring, Foreign Policy, Freedom, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, twitter, United States

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As you can tell, this post was not planned at all this morning, but I couldn’t get away from this piece of news: Ossama Bin Laden was killed. He was killed this morning by “a small team of Americans” under the direct control by the U.S. President Barack Obama, as announced by him.

It was first leaked on twitter (enclosed photo). Now, Mr Bin Laden’s on Wikipedia page has been updated to show his death, assuming he was not involved in updating it!
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