The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.

The article discusses the use of the Twitter, the online social network, during the Arab uprisings in 2011. It is suggested that Twitter has been used by the media as a tool for journalists and reporters to carry up-to-date information about the revolutions to the rest of the world. Other topics inc...

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Published in:Foreign Policy no. 187; pp. 20 - 23
Main Author: Hounshell, Blake
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Published: Foreign Policy July/August 2011
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