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"In April, OR Books published Tweets from Tahrir, a book of tweets sent from Ground Zero of the democratic revolution that played out in Egypt last year. The book, its promotions declare, "brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative, allowing the story of the uprising to be told directly by the people in Cairo's Tahrir Square. History has never before been written in this fashion." "

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Twitter's credibility seems to be jeopardized after proclaiming its plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that breaks local laws, as the youthful company had long prided itself in promoting unfettered expression

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Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

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"A research arm of the intelligence community wants to sweep up public data on everything from Twitter to public webcams in the hopes of predicting the future."

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"According to the Arab Social Media Report (ASMR) produced by the Dubai School of Government's Governance and Innovation programme, the Arab region houses 30 to 40 million Twitter users that are considered “active”. "

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London police will review the role messages sent via Twitter Inc.'s messaging service and other social-networking sites played in two nights of rioting that led to more than 215 arrests and injured at least 35 police officers.

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A gathering of Egyptian activists and bloggers convened Sunday in Dokki, Cairo to take part in the first ‘Tweet Nadwa’, a meeting organised for members of the social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter “to engage in new conversations and discover new contacts” according to organiser Alaa Abd El Fattah.

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Mohamed says the revolution would have happened if social media was not there, but it would have taken a little longer.

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"The introductory section of this recent essay in the London Review of Books paints a disturbing nexus between the US government and major web companies. They seem worryingly comfortable assisting US foreign policy goals. Putting a nice, sexy face to occupation."

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Why the revolution will not be tweeted.

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On the afternoon of September 24, 2009, Pennsylvania State Troopers, their guns drawn, broke down the door of room 238 of the CareFree Inn on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. The troopers were acting on a search warrant related to protests planned for the G20 summit-a meeting of the heads of state of the world's major economies. Thousands of protesters had descended on the city, presenting demands ranging from curbs on carbon emissions to the outright abolition of capitalism.

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"Around this time last week, we first heard about the earthquake in Haiti via Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or text message -- through technology and the social Web."

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If Twitter is the face of democracy, who, exactly, does it represent?

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