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The "Twitter Revolution" Myth
- Published_at:2012-03-06
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:corbettreport
- tags: Twitter, Revolution, tunisia, egypt, moldova, iran, facebook, youtube, social, media, evgeny, morozov, meme, myth
- description: CONTINUE WATCHING: http://ur1.ca/8jj37 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=4137 As anyone who has logged on to the internet in the last five years is all too aware, social media websites have exploded in popularity to the point where they are virtually impossible to avoid. Facebook is expected to hit one billion users later this year. Twitter handles almost 300 million tweets per day. Every second, one hour of video footage is uploaded to YouTube. With this rise in popularity of social media has come an attendant rise in another trend: the dinosaur media's attempts to portray these websites as revolutionary tools for freedom loving people around the world. Find out more in this week's edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Eyeopener.
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