The thing about it (The Twitter Revolution) was how heavily traditional media relied on Twitter to stay abreast of the events taking place in Tehran and the new element of irrelevance in mass-communicated news. The dissemination of this type of information has historically been relegated to one-way channels. These days, however, there are many sources calling out in real time from the location of the news event, all with their own bias and subjectivity.
When I think about it, I remember my high school civics teacher preaching about "gleaning the truth from varied primary sources" when it comes to history. That kind of editorial is exactly what twitter offered during this event in 2011, but it was combined with photo and video content, which is what essentially made it so powerful, especially during a media blackout.
My inference on this phenomenon is that human communication is becoming so efficient that we are clearly working toward a hive mind kind of future. News finds you these days, not the other way around. You know within minutes when a celebrity dies. If you have any interest in science fiction and how it relates to future technology, I'd definitely recommend this novel. It's a stretch, but hey, Jules Verne popularized the submarine.
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