Egypt & The Twitter Revolution.

So I've been going round in circles on what I wanted to do for my final project. I finally settled on Twitter and how it has played a part in all these many revolutions, especially Egypt's. It has been about a month since we started seeing these revolutions take place from the comfort of our homes, but before this there was a social movement that moved these to the streets. Twitter amongst other mediums has played a major part in this worldwide change. Twitter along with Google maps is one example that is evident. Now you can tell the position where a tweet is generated. I believe this is an important thing we should look at.

Okay, before I start rambling on like this isn't a blog but a test, here are some articles I came across. The first shows how important it is to look at this revolution, but also consider how it affects the American society and their choices. Hadar, Leon T. (2011, January 29). Start the Twitter Revolution without Me. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from The Cato Institute Web site. In this article he delibrates on how this affects us.

My second article focuses on the way twitter has played into the revolution as an African. It shows how the African community views this as opposed to what the world sees. It is from the The East African (Nairobi), February 2011,called "The Revolution in Black Africa Won't Be Played Out in the Streets".

My final article shows the actual result of the tweets from Egypt and what was really going on. It shows us what was really going on in egypt between the Internet and Twitter. It was from Advertising Age,February 7, 2011, WHAT THE RETURN OF INTERNET IN EGYPT LOOKED LIKE ON TWITTER; Dumenco's Trendrr Chart of the Week.

Okay, now that I am done listing facts and the like. The real question comes. So what? Well this means we have a trend that is going to build gradually. Revolutions are going to come continually. The question is are we ready for it? Like famous twitter Egypt revolutionist @iyad_elbaghdadi tweeted for the whole world to see "#Mubarak: "We're not #Tunisia". #Gaddafi: "We're not #Egypt". Whoever is next will say "We're not #Libya"."

Who next before we realize that the right thing needs to be done.