Did Twitter And Facebook Really Build A Global Revolution?

Social Media: Did Twitter And Facebook Really Build A Global Revolution? -- Christian Science Monitor

Social media: From Iran to Tunisia and Egypt and beyond, Twitter and Facebook are the power tools of civic upheaval – but social media is only one factor in the spread of democratic revolution.

Facebook pages blared protest plans. Photographs were uploaded to Flickr, a photo-sharing website, and video clips were hoisted onto YouTube. Protesters mapped their uprisings, and the violence that followed, adapting their online cartography in real time to reports gathered by text message and Facebook updates.

To say nothing of all the tweeting.

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My Comment: These social media websites definitely have had an impact on the civic upheavals that are occurring in the Arab world and elsewhere. But they are only one factor in the spread of this revolution.

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