Aram Zucker-Scharff

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I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming behavior is so prevalent, it got a new nickname — “sea lioning,” inspired by David Malki’s Wondermark comic.

I wanted to understand #Gamergate, how its proponents and critics behaved and the composition of both audiences.

So I wrote a little Python script with the Twython wrapper for the Twitter streaming API, and started capturing every single tweet that mentioned the #Gamergate and #NotYourShield hashtags.

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– 72 Hours of Gamergate.

“If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?”

– Is GamerGate about media ethics or harassing women? Harassment, the data shows.