Saturday, January 22, 2011

Twitter topples Tunisia?

Twitter topples Tunisia?: "Tunisia's Twitter Revolution was different in one very important way: activists used Twitter to help protesters navigate the on-the-ground tumult, warning of sniper locations, for example. One man even tweeted that Twitter saved his life. Then Friday, Ali Larayedh, leader of Tunisia's once-outlawed opposition Islamist party, told The New York Times, 'None of us expected the Ben Ali government to go down as fast as [a text] message.'"

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