When you think of a revolution lots of images come to mind. Many of them for me consist of great battles of patriotism, freedom, and the fight for a better world. Never would i think of Twitter or Facebook. But those medias are shaping our social world.
The first time it was very evident was earlier this year in Egypt and throughout the middle-east. We saw huge revolutions happening everywhere to fight the government. Tens of thousands of people would show up out of no where to come together and protest. It turns out the entire logistical side of the revolutions were fed by social media, namely, Twitter and Facebook.
Right now the social media revolution is happening right here in the USA. We see thousands of young people showing up to protest the corporate world that they are all a product of (maybe I'll argue this another time). Except this time they are not using Twitter as Facebook as much, because they want to remain mostly anonymous.
With protecting their futurers on their minds, anonymity is crucial. So the prostesters have switched to a new more anonymous version of Twitter called Vibe. This allows them to post to the stie purely to express their ideas, not being attached to any one person. This is a very interesting development in Social revolutions, and one that will likely continue to others.
Viva la Vibe.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/anonymous-messaging-app-vibe-gets-boost-from-occupy-wall-street/?ref=socialnetworking
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