Tweets from Tahrir

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Egypt, Computers, Internet, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Nadia Idle, Alex Nunns ISBN: 9781935928461
Publisher: OR Books Publication: April 21, 2011
Imprint: OR Books Language: English
Author: Nadia Idle, Alex Nunns
ISBN: 9781935928461
Publisher: OR Books
Publication: April 21, 2011
Imprint: OR Books
Language: English

The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Thousands of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution as it happened. This book 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 Cairos Tahrir Square.Many of the activists were citizen journalists using Twitter to report what was happening. Others used the social network to organize communicating the next steps necessary for the revolution to move forward. Nearly everyone online gave instant reactions to the extraordinary events occurring before their eyes.History has never before been written in this fashion. The tweet limit of 140 characters evidently concentrated the feelings of those using Twitter. Raw emotion bursts from their messages whether frantic alarm at attacks from pro-government thugs or delirious happiness at the fall of the dictator. To read these tweets is to embark a rollercoaster ride from the surprise and excitement of the first demonstration to the horror of the violence that claimed hundreds of lives to the final ecstasy of victory.Many of those tweeting also took photographs with their phones and these illustrate the book providing remarkable snapshots from the heart of the action.Edited by young activists Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle an Egyptian who was in Tahrir Square when Mubarak fell Tweets from Tahrir is a highly original take on one of the most important and dramatic events in recent world politics. The result is as gripping as any thriller but its all real.

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The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Thousands of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution as it happened. This book 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 Cairos Tahrir Square.Many of the activists were citizen journalists using Twitter to report what was happening. Others used the social network to organize communicating the next steps necessary for the revolution to move forward. Nearly everyone online gave instant reactions to the extraordinary events occurring before their eyes.History has never before been written in this fashion. The tweet limit of 140 characters evidently concentrated the feelings of those using Twitter. Raw emotion bursts from their messages whether frantic alarm at attacks from pro-government thugs or delirious happiness at the fall of the dictator. To read these tweets is to embark a rollercoaster ride from the surprise and excitement of the first demonstration to the horror of the violence that claimed hundreds of lives to the final ecstasy of victory.Many of those tweeting also took photographs with their phones and these illustrate the book providing remarkable snapshots from the heart of the action.Edited by young activists Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle an Egyptian who was in Tahrir Square when Mubarak fell Tweets from Tahrir is a highly original take on one of the most important and dramatic events in recent world politics. The result is as gripping as any thriller but its all real.

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