Middle East uprisings take more than 140 Twitter characters - FT.com

Middle East uprisings take more than 140 Twitter characters - FT.com:

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Twitter played a main role during Egypt's uprising

Be wary of the hype. Twitter didn’t topple longstanding dictatorships in the Middle East and north Africa. Thousands of people risking their lives to head into the streets did.

Yet among activists in the region, Twitter played and continues to play an important role in keeping the conversation going, serving as a virtual town hall where they can fine-tune tactics, test ideas and call for street action.

“Twitter provides you a way to disseminate information,” said Mahmoud Salem, an Egyptian writer and journalist known as @Sandmonkey on Twitter, with more than 130,000 followers."

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