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Social media and the Arab Spring

You might remember it as Twitter revolution, Facebook revolution

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2011·The social era

The first time the world argued about whether a network could start a revolution.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Twitter revolution
Spread in
2011
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Who or what it shows
The use of Facebook and Twitter to organise the protests of 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt
Where it started
In Egypt, the Facebook group We Are All Khaled Said spread the call to protest
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube carried organisation, footage and testimony across the 2010–2012 uprisings, and were credited with far more and far less than they did. The record of what the platforms actually carried is what this holds.

LegacyWhat it left behind

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

More from 2011You were there

More from the social eraMore of the archive

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Social media and the Arab Spring

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