Twitter Revolution

They called it the "Twitter revolution".

The limits of the 'Twitter revolution'

"The phrase 'Twitter revolution,' last spotted wandering around Tehran in a daze, has made a comeback."

Interesting article, agree with the derision of weaselly question marks (like: 'Tunisia's Twitter revolution?')

Western political leaders and sloppy journos characterised the uprising as a "Facebook revolution" or a "Twitter revolution."

In Egypt, the "twitter revolution" led to MB/Salafists.

Recent events in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt have been called 'Twitter revolutions' - but can social networking overthrow a government?

"Wildly overdrawn claims about social media, often made with weaselly question marks (like: 'Tunisia's Twitter revolution?')

And despite the claims of Tunisia being a Twitter revolution - or inspired by WikiLeaks - neither played much of a part.

A woman who helped organise the protests that rocked Moldova last week has gone into hiding after the "Twitter revolution" forced a recount of the general election.

In our age of Facebook and Twitter revolutions, it's worth taking a critical look at the Cold War's Battle of Balloons.

What happened in Tunisia was not a Facebook revolution, and what's happening now in Egypt is not a potential Twitter revolution.

These revolutions have been called "Twitter revolutions" or "Facebook revolutions", and although these claims are somewhat exaggerated, they are also not entirely fanciful.

Most often, though, they have tried to conceive them through the media that informed them - as the result of WikiLeaks, as "Twitter revolutions" or inspired by Facebook.

The real Twitter revolution may have been to make us better at talking to and reaching each other, and more insistent about the need to do so-and not to make us dependent on Twitter.

Some, like Malcolm Gladwell, have criticised the notion of "Twitter revolutions", saying lightweight networks of people who don't know each other aren't the beginning and end of activism, even if they have played some part.

As for Moldova's so-called Twitter Revolution, Evgeny Morozov, a scholar at Stanford who has been the most persistent of digital evangelism's critics, points out that Twitter had scant internal significance in Moldova, a country where very few Twitter accounts exist.