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- Lucas123, on 06/23/2009, -0/+20Somehow, someway, I think they'll manage without Twitter.
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -6/+18OMG im going to go twitter about this article about twitter on twitter! Then i'm going to twitter about my twitter on twitter that i twittered about twitter twitter twiTTER TWITTER OMG TWITTER!!!!!
God ppl STFU about twitter already. Worse then a bunch of 12 year old girls at a tween concert. - andymci, on 06/23/2009, -0/+7Behind every tweet is a person. Don't let the medium get in the way of the message. Folks will use whatever technology is available + makes the most sense at the time. Social media, email, texting, television, telephone, telegraph, radio, printing press, messenger, smoke signals, whatever.
- method7670, on 06/24/2009, -0/+7I wonder if journalists know this, but all the protests in the past didn't have twitter.
- KenSPT, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6I'm waiting for the MySpace resurgence.
- Falldog, on 06/24/2009, -0/+6They could probably just do the same thing they did before Twitter.
- SangekiRein, on 06/24/2009, -0/+5This shouldn't be an article... seriously.
- PoliticalMan922, on 06/23/2009, -2/+7Twitter does help; however, there are other ways. There were protests long before Twitter and there will be protests long AFTER twitter.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+5Yeah, that's what many of them are doing. That's why we see people dying on street.
- MiDri, on 06/24/2009, -0/+4lies!
- meruru, on 06/24/2009, -0/+4Don't you know that twitter is the single greatest human creation ever (just barely edging out the iPhone)?
It will replace all journalism; who needs reporters and fact checking when we can have random people tweeting "OMG a plane crashed in the river!". It will replace all personal communication and job applications; in the future we will all just tweet "I need a job" and we will instantly be greeted with a bunch of job offers. And now it can launch protests and topple whole governments. At no other point in history have humans had this amazing power to organize and overthrow leadership! - andymci, on 06/24/2009, -0/+3I am honoured that you felt the need to ctrl+c, ctrl+v my comment.
- RealmDown, on 06/24/2009, -3/+6The French love it. They can order a full retweet.
- protogenxl, on 06/24/2009, -0/+3TOBY
[enters] Excuse me. I was waylaid.
C.J.
By what?
TOBY
30,000 tourists.
LARRY
You know, the protesters.
TOBY
No, don’t call them protesters, I’ve seen better organized crowds at the DMV.
LEO
Two tons this block of cheese weighed...
TOBY
[still muttering] In my day, we knew how to protest.
C.J.
What day was that?
TOBY
1968.
JOSH
How the hell old were you when you were protesting?
TOBY
My sisters took me. [staffers chuckle] Anybody have a problem with that?
LEO
No one has a problem with that.
TOBY
The police are always seven steps ahead of them. The cops know exactly where they’re
going to be and what’s going to happen. You know how they know? By logging onto their
website. We had the underground. We had rapid response.
C.J.
And by God, you were home by supper on a school night.
TOBY
These people are amateurs. What’s my assignment?
LEO
Meeting with the amateurs. - no2gates, on 06/24/2009, -2/+4Wasn't Tianamen Square protest the reason Twitter was invented?
- borez, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2I remember printing out leaflets for a school fate with a mimeograph years ago... purple ink on yellow paper and a lot of handle turning if I recall . Thanks for jogging my memory.
- cherrysweet00, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Some things are best said in more than 140 words, eh?
- MWeather, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2How to run a protest without twitter: use an RSS feed. In fact, you can do pretty much anything you'd do on twitter by using RSS feeds.
- HAL90000, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2yo dawg
- FredFredrickson, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Protests were here long before Twitter, and they'll be here long after Twitter as well.
- MasterAmerica, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Protests happened long before Twitter and will continue to happen long after it's gone.
- FredFredrickson, on 06/24/2009, -1/+2And the problem with Twitter is that behind any tweet could be ANY person. There is no authenticity or credibility.
- slantyeyed, on 06/24/2009, -4/+5If the Iranians stopped twittering they'd have time to enact some real change.
- 0crabby0, on 06/24/2009, -1/+2Free the 7/11!!!
Free the 7/11!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven
lol - ThantiK, on 06/24/2009, -0/+1You can do anything you can do on myspace/facebook, by using a wordpress. The whole ***** POINT of the internet is to be open. Not to use 1 website as a "walled garden"...that's why twitter/facebook/myspace all that ***** piss me off so much.
People need to learn to use the tools available to them. Google just did a street-survey, and only 8% of the people knew what a "browser" was...when asked they mostly said "oh that's google" - judgeice2, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2http://cellecast.com/tweets
Stand with Iran. Radio Free Iran is now an interactive idea! Spread the word to friends and family in Iran so they can report directly in English (and Farsi) right here simply by calling this number!
(415) 707-3003 - mobilebond, on 06/23/2009, -1/+2So social media gets into politics more and more... Can't say it's good, but each mean of mass communications will sometime be used in this role ( Obama -the greatest example)
- crgnetworks, on 06/24/2009, -1/+1I kno dood! im totally gonna twit about this!
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -1/+1tweet concert...
Sorry, couldn't resist. Calm down, man! - DirtyMcGee, on 06/23/2009, -9/+0Do you really know that though? Twitter is teh awesome.
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