Digiactive Twitter Guide

Report

‘The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism’ by Andreas Jungherr, published by DigiActive in April 2009, sets out practical uses of Twitter for political and social activists based on real-world cases including the spread of news after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan, Twitter Vote Report and the campaign against Motrin in the US, coordination during the San Diego wildfires, crowdsourced search tools built in France, and a widely reported 2008 arrest in Egypt live-tweeted by the detained activist. The guide closes with practical steps and tools for running a Twitter-based activism campaign, including advice for readers outside the US, UK, Canada and India.