Twitter Hashflags for #Ramadan and #Eid

tl;dr Twitter is enabling hashflags for Ramadan & Eid

Ahmad AbuAmmo, Twitter’s Head of Media Partnerships for the MENA region tweeted couple days ago about Twitter is enabling hashflags for Ramadan & Eid

The full blog post can be found here

This is amazing news for 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. It’s actually pretty nice of twitter and very engaging idea that will increase the engagement for both #Ramadan & #Eid hashtags

Speaking of engagement, conversation about Ramadan last year was around 74.2m globally.

Ramadan conversation globally 2013


52million impressions in Middle east only, and 21 million mentions for #Ramadan hashtag, and #Eid’s hashtag received 3 million mentions

The conversation is growing very fast, up to 600% increase since march 2014

Ramadan in MENA

Witter also made partnership with  @AlArabiya to help twitter users find out, with a Tweet, what time each day they can break the fast. Starting tomorrow, tweet @AlArabiya with #iftar followed by the name of your city with a # immediately in front (e.g. #Dubai), and the @AlArabiya account will send you the time for #iftar. This also works for #Imsak (or beginning the fast).here’s an example

Join the conversation now and tweet about #Ramadan


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