Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Twitter Revolutions- A trending topic?

We have seen a recent use of Twitter in the organizations of protests, and even revolutions over the past few year. Given our most recent readings and discussion in class, I thought this article was interesting. In this report on the riots in Egypt, BBC specifically mentions the use of Twitter in this, and other, protests.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12283849
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Oksana Kirichenko said...

As we read in "Groundswell", people are become very powerful when they connect and form relationships and communities using social media.I agree that Facebook and Twitter can be great tools protesters use to connect with more people. On the other hand, I am wondering if some of the riots and protests might become unmanageable and get out control because of people connecting through social media.. - we cannot really predict whether people we can connecting with through Twitter, for example, really support the ideas or the cause of the protest..

January 28, 2011 at 10:03 AM

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