- Global Voices - https://globalvoices.org -

Tunisia: Not a Twitter Revolution?

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Tunisia, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Politics, Protest

On Tunisian blogging portal Nawaat, Christopher Barrie writes [1]:

It is surely not unreasonable to argue that the 2011 revolution which followed this period of unrest could well have happened in the absence of new media. … It is therefore clear that the existence of Twitter was not a decisive element in the outbreak of the mass demonstrations of 2010-11.