Abstract:
Road safety movement in Bangladesh was the largest ever crowed public movement in
Bangladesh. Due to accidental death of two college student, this movement raised. Like
many other recent movement around the world we see a huge contribution of social
media related to the protest. We can say, we see a parallel contribution of Twitter on
every protest. May be it was “Arab Spring”, indigenous protest in Spain or any protest.
We see the power of hashtags in all recent movements. In this paper we tried to give a
comparative analysis between ground protest and Twitter. For Ground protest
information we collect newspaper front page coverage because there is no way to collect
information of that old days. After collecting newspaper old copies we try to find out
what actually happened on that moment. We see the headlines of the newspaper and see
how it reflects the ground protest. Then we make a percentage of these information. We
make figure of them. Another information source was Twitter. Due to unavailability of
Twitter information using API .We use a social media monitoring tool to collect Twitter
hashtags information during the protest. After that we made a comparative analysis of
newspapers coverage as ground protest nature and Twitter hashtags information’s.
Finally we found a tight relationship between ground protest and Twitter activities.