Moldova: Twitter “Revolution” or Twitter Hype?
SOMETHING’S being organizing in the small Eastern European country of Moldova, but there seems to be some disagreement over the “how” part. Some press coverage (particularly this Evgeny Morozov piece on ForeignPolicy.com, which the author later reconsidered) seized on the appearance of protest-tagged messages on Twitter to make a bold claim: that Moldovan youth relied on the micro-blogging tool as the main way to organize public actions that began as sit-ins but that morphed into street protests and the temporary takeover of the country’s president’s office and parliament building.
Ah sweet skepticism, will you never leave me be?
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