The Economist
Social media and the Wall Street protests
#Occupytheweb
While the so-called "Facebook revolutions" in the Arab world were nothing of the sort*, what's going on in America right now may be the world's first genuine social-media uprising. Besides the standard channels of Facebook, whose Occupy Wall St page now has nearly 170,000 fans, Twitter, where the hashtags #occupywallst and #ows spew out dozens of tweets a minute, and of course a dedicated website, Occupy Together, protesters are also organising via Meetup, which at the time of this writing shows events planned in over 1,300 cities worldwide. On the fund-raising site Kickstarter, the founders of Occupy Wall Street Media have already brought in more than six times their original target for publishing a protest newspaper, flyers and posters, and a couple who started with the modest ambition of raising $1,000 for a film about the movement are now urgently telling supporters that their "real" goal is much higher.
For the full story:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/10/social-media-and-wall-street-protests
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