Tweeting, Revolution

         Andy Carvin the one that kept tweeting about the revolution in Egypt, was interviewed. He shared his experience about twitter. The advantage of twitter is that, when the journalist does not, knows answers for certain things; the followers in the twitter come up with answers. Some videos are made based on the cultural facts that the journalist knows about. He sorts out the videos by giving careful attention to the footage that he receives, though it creates problems sometimes. When he finds something unusual or he is ignorant about, he just posts it and asks if anyone knew about it, which I think is the best thing in Social network. Though he tweets revolution, he can feel free to ask and know about it. Whereas, the other news broadcast does not work in this two-way communication process. He says that he trust people that he knew, people who get into personal communication with him, about the event. He also keeps digging their twitter accounts to see, whom they have been following and it all ended up with the protest leaders whom he found online, this made him believe, that the information sent by them were true. He had revolutionary followers who sent him videos that he posted in twitter and the next day it comes out in CCN. He says that there is a cause in naming this as a social media because it also shows the care and empathy for others, rather than just giving news about the revolution.

Listen - A Conversation With the Man Who Tweets Revolutions