Twitter Activism

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Using Twitter to let people know you’re okay is a good thing to do when you’re an activist who routinely gets detained or arrested. Twitter feeds can be used to inform friends and family every time someone goes to the police or to a demonstration, letting people know where he or she is. Twitter is also potentially useful for activists organizing a demonstration, as it’s a lightweight mass-SMS sending system, which lets you warn your fellow activists where the police are and what path they should take. Probably not the purpose the designers had, but an excellent use nevertheless.