Moldova uprising was organised on Twitter

[T_i_B]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/blog/2009/04/07/moldova_uprising_was_organised_on_twitter

A Twitter uprising has taken place in Moldova, with anti-communists using the internet site to mobilise supporters and organise a demonstration in the country’s capital. Activists apparently used the tag #pman on their tweets to build a network of supporters.

Evgeny Morozov, author of the net.effect blog for Foreign Policy magazine, writes: "No, 'pman' is not short for pacman; it stands for Piata Marii Adunari Nationale, which is Romanian name for the biggest square in Chisinau, Moldova's capital.

"This is not the first time that a Twitter tag has been used to mobilize young people around a particular event; the most famous previous case has been that of 'griots' - the tag used to report on the youth riots in Greece, which later spread to Europe, arguably also with the help of Twitter."

Likewise there were reports that last week's G20 demonstrations were being organised by Twitter and certainly Twitter played a role in reporting on them.

[the other one]

1. This is very important

Past social revolutions have been the product of social organizing and unions. Modern unions in the US have been marginalized. Any future social revolutions will rely on text messaging and twitter type of technologies to organize a critical mass of people.

[Fumesucker]

2. Definitely reminiscent of what happened in the Soviet Union.. Samizdat Cassettes..

Underground music would percolate throughout the Soviet Union in mere weeks via copies of protest songs made on cassette recorders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat