English .. The Social Media’s dominant language during the Egypt revolution.

By: Mariam Yousef  

    Mazen Nahawi, the president of News Group at SocialEyes found that English was the dominant  language used to discuss the Egypt revolution in the social networks. He indicated that 38% of all conversations about the revolution was in English. This percentage was high comparing with the Arabic language used for the same purpose which was just 32% , although the revolution issue is happening in an Arabic country as Egypt.                                                      

By: Hanan Mohammed 

      Nahawi gave students at Zayed University an important fact about the language usage during the Egypt revolution. He figured out from his researches that 11% of all conversations in the social media was in Faresi. “ This shows that what happens in Cairo has an impact in Tahran,” Nawahi said.

     Nawahi’s figures come from his monitoring for all the social networks as Facebook, Twitter and google using a specific software to count and collect the needed conversations in the worldwide.

     Based on Nahawi’s research about the number of conversations made during the Egypt revolution, he found that the conversations doubled from 1.6 million to 3.3 million during one month only between January to February 2011.

Audio - Mazen Nawahi talking about the dominant language in the social media during the Egypt Revolution.