2011·The social era
Social media and the Arab Spring
The first time the world argued about whether a network could start a revolution.
You might remember it as Twitter revolution, Facebook revolution
A trend people joined in with
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
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.
It first appeared in 2011, during the social era.
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- 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.