drbexl.co.uk » Aung San Suu Kyi http://drbexl.co.uk Dr Bex Lewis: Polymath Sat, 19 May 2012 20:50:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 #assk64: Trending http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/05/27/assk64-trending/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/05/27/assk64-trending/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 11:37:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/assk64-trending #assk64
Finally, I am “trendy”, and was ahead of fashion!
The website “64 words for Aung San Sui Kyi” launched yesterday evening at 9.30pm (GMT), and I was only the second person to Tweet using the hashtag #assk64. Working late on something, I watched it start to take off, particularly once @SarahBrown10, @jimmycarr and @eddieizzard started tweeting about it.
Trending Topic
The image to the left is a screenshot from Twitter in the last 10 minutes, showing that #assk64 is now the third most popular topic on Twitter right now – that’s pretty impressive in less than 24 hours! Most are redirecting people to the website although of course there’s always a few mis-using it – ignore them!
So Where are most of the Retweets coming from?
The organisation behind this hasn’t been slow in asking celebrities to post their “64 words” (although many, like me, have tweeted about it, rather than written their 64 words), and I suspect that @stephenfry (with over half-million followers) has had quite a bit to do with an extra spurt in popularity and the official @64forsuu should be worth following too! @assk64 has dropped off the top trending topics, but still plenty of activity, particularly triggered by Alan Davies this afternoon.
On the Website: George Clooney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Vaclav Havel, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown have all written messages of support.

The News: Waiting to see it start to appear, only 1 story in Google at the moment.

Take Action: On the website, on Twitter, or on Facebook!
Update 11th July 2009: Interestingly #assk64 is still circulating on Twitter.
]]> http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/05/27/assk64-trending/feed/ 0 #assk64 : 64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/05/27/assk64-64-words-for-aung-san-suu-kyi/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/05/27/assk64-64-words-for-aung-san-suu-kyi/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 00:32:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/assk64-64-words-for-aung-san-suu-kyi Aung San Suu Kyi: 64th Birthday Coming Up

As Aung San Suu Kyi approaches her 64th birthday (June 19th 2009), and around 13 years of imprisonment, this site was created to collect hundreds of messages of support before that birthday. Created in only 6 days by Rechord, and launched only a couple of hours ago, the site already has a buzz going on Twitter, largely thanks to @SarahBrown10 (Gordon Brown’s wife, he’s also posted an entry, but it keeps disappearing thanks to the volume of Tweets!) and @JimmyCarr, and now @eddieizzard! You can read more about ASSK, and her fight against illegal imprisonment.

Add your voice: Website; Twitter Feed (using hashtag #assk64, let’s see if we can get it trending!); become a friend on Facebook.

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