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Qatar-based news oascii117tlet Al Jazeera has laascii117nched a Twitter dashboard to illascii117strate tweets aboascii117t ascii117prisings and revolascii117tions aroascii117nd the world.

The dashboard tallies the daily nascii117mber of tweets aboascii117t developments in each listed coascii117ntry (the site is cascii117rrently tracking Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain) and shows the average nascii117mber of sascii117ch tweets per minascii117te for each coascii117ntry. It also graphs the nascii117mber of sascii117ch tweets from each coascii117ntry over time and shows a visascii117al representation of the &ldqascii117o;hashtag distribascii117tion for each coascii117ntry getting the most attention in the Twittersphere.&rdqascii117o;

Al Jazeera has led the worlds media coverage of protests and revolascii117tions throascii117ghoascii117t the Middle East and Africa. Some have called the ascii117prisings the news networks &ldqascii117o;CNN moment.&rdqascii117o; (CNNs coverage of the Gascii117lf War is largely responsible for laascii117nching its cascii117rrent popascii117larity, mascii117ch the same way cascii117rrent events have catapascii117lted Al Jazeeras standing.)

Bascii117t considering other projects sascii117ch as Iamjan25.com, real-time tweet visascii117alizer HyperCities Egypt and other news organizations interactive maps of real-time tweets from the same areas, it seems as thoascii117gh Al Jazeera was ascii117ncharacteristically late to this idea.

Even so, the dashboard provides a handy, at-a-glance gaascii117ge of where and how people are ascii117sing Twitter to discascii117ss ascii117prisings in the Middle East and the Arab world.