Early reaction to Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize win on Twitter

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The visualization below is generated from a Twitter search for the hashtag #liuxiaobo. This word cloud shows the most mentioned words from over 600 Twitter messages just after the award was announced.  Most of the messages were originally in Chinese (translated via Google Translate), even though Twitter is still blocked in China.

Commonly used words and junk like 'RT' and 'via' have been removed, as well as words you'd expect to see like 'Nobel' 'Peace', 'Prize', 'Chinese', and 'China's'.

Recent reaction

Liu Xiaobo Twitter reactions (graphic)