Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter - NYTimes.com

The sea of young people reflected the deep generation gap that has developed in Moldova, and the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network.

The protesters created their own searchable tag on Twitter, rallying Moldovans to join and propelling events in this small former Soviet state onto a Twitter list of newly popular topics, so people around the world could keep track.
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter - NYTimes.com
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