#8milliontweets

Moreover, a simple statement of fact—for example, that there were eight million Ferguson tweets— tells us very little. How many were critical of the police? How many were critical of the protestors? How many were posted by journalists (both professional and amateur)? Be-yond knowing that people tweeted, we know little about what those tweets meant to their authors and their imag-ined publics. We do not know, for example, how many of the eight million tweets were aimed at a national audience