fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, it was the first time in history that Twitter, Facebook, and other social media had helped bring down a government. With Egypt now in its third day of Facebook-organized political flash mobs, it may not be the last.
Recent uprisings midwived by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the cable news network Al-Jazeera might not be a "Twitter revolution." But the Middle East has been shaken, and social media have done some of the shaking.
from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Arab world shaken by power of Twitter and Facebook
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