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...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 187; pp. 20 - 23 |
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Foreign Policy
July/August 2011
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| Sumario: | 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 include the reliability of the network as a news source, a comparison with the social network website Facebook, and examples of posts, or Twitter tweets, from the revolutions in Egypt and in Libya in 2011. |
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