Most of the keywords were in English, and the majority of the social media posts tracked were on Twitter. The search found 31.26 million mentions by social media users from 193 countries over a one-month period from April 19 to May 19. Of the total, 1.18 million mentions came from Malaysians, making us the second most prolific, behind US-based social media users with 1.24 million mentions. Social media users in Pakistan came in third with 979,175 mentions, followed by people in Egypt (926,593) and India (858,704). Twenty-nine-year-old Syahmi Nazir, who has also been actively supporting Palestine on Twitter, expressed hope that it would help lead to action.

Source: The Star May 24, 2021 23:01 UTC