"Power to The People" The Twitter Revolution

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

Important part of twitter is "twit".

Facebook laid off 30% of their staff today. Power to the people indeed.

Its the recession, there are daily casualties. This Iranian situation is interesting because the government is dealing with a movement in a traditional hard line crackdown and are being cold cocked by technology. When CNN first came on the scene, it changed everything. Politicos could go live. Wars were seen immediately. They were cutting edge. Now CNN (among others) is looking old school because they can't keep up with the speed of the dissemination of information. Its more than revolutionary. It will change the way governments deal with their population in the future. It might not be Twitter. It will probably be something we haven't even thought of yet. You can't look at everything as just a marketing opportunity. That is not the value of this kind of technology.