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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://www.seascapemodels.org/rstats/2017/08/04/conservationoptimism.html"> Bluecology blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<h2>Impact of the conservation optimism hashtag</h2>
<p>The hashtag <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/conservationoptimism?src=hash" target="_blank">#conservationoptimism</a> became popular during the recent <a rel="nofollow" href="http://conbio.org/mini-sites/iccb-2017" target="_blank">International Congress for Conservation Biology</a> symposium. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/MJBurgass" target="_blank">Michael Burgass</a> asked me what its twitter impact was, so here is a quick analysis.</p>
<p>Michael also asked about #iamaconservationist, but that has too few tweets so far to make for a meaningful analysis (about 100).</p>
<p>To be honest, not too much has happened on this hashtag so far, so it is hard to say too much from a broad brush quantitative analysis like this, but here are a few stats.</p>
<p>The first tweet I got was only on 2017-07-26 and until now there have been 813 tweets from 390 users of which 133 are original tweets and the rest RTs.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.seascapemodels.org/Images/consopt-tweet-times.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
<p>I think that spike on Wednesday corresponds to EJ Milner-Gulland’s plenary at ICCB.</p>
<p>The distribution of tweets per user is not quite as skewed as other hashtags I have analysed. I guess becaues there are fewer users and it is the sort of hashtag that people only post once to (thought they may RT multiple others).</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.seascapemodels.org/Images/consopt-number_users.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
<h3>Most popular tweets</h3>
<p>Here is a table of the most popular tweets.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Handle</th>
<th>Tweet</th>
<th># retweets</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>MorenaMills</td>
<td>.@EJMilnerGulland inspiring action and optimism at #ICCB2017 #conservationoptimism #IAmAConservationist. More info: https://t.co/FrNtVl8U1q https://t.co/jjE9fBeMFw</td>
<td>49</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>suewalker2008</td>
<td>Post Doc opportunity on zebras in Africa! Please share widely <img alt="😊" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/72x72/1f60a.png" class="wp-smiley"> #ICCB2018 #conservationoptimism https://t.co/gyXziTWinq</td>
<td>34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ICCB2017</td>
<td>Keep the #conservationoptimism going! Thank you @EJMilnerGulland for a fantastic message of hope! #ICCB2017 #iamaconservationist https://t.co/i4g6Q5S4TB</td>
<td>20</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>abigailrdan</td>
<td>Exciting PhD opportunity in Australia for promising marine scientists who want to channel #conservationoptimism @LAFFellows @sfgucsb https://t.co/K9astyMqH4</td>
<td>17</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Most popular terms</h3>
<p>The most popular place is Africa (probably because of that job tweet above), the most popular user <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/EJMilnerGulland" target="_blank">EJ Milner-Gulland</a>. Other popular words include inspire, great, share, future.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Term</th>
<th># of tweets</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>iccb</td>
<td>398</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ejmilnergulland</td>
<td>256</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>iamaconservationist</td>
<td>176</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>inspir</td>
<td>98</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>great</td>
<td>96</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>conserv</td>
<td>89</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>share</td>
<td>65</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>conservoptimism</td>
<td>62</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>optim</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>check</td>
<td>59</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>action</td>
<td>54</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>opportun</td>
<td>53</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>info</td>
<td>51</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>time</td>
<td>51</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>give</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>morenamills</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>plenari</td>
<td>47</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>want</td>
<td>47</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>watch</td>
<td>43</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>stori</td>
<td>41</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>work</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>post</td>
<td>39</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>learn</td>
<td>38</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>africa</td>
<td>37</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>thank</td>
<td>37</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pleas</td>
<td>36</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>doc</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>futur</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tcogyxzitwinq</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>wide</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>That’s all. It might be worth doing an update on this in a few months if the tag takes off.</p>
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