Middle East’s Twitter Revolution In Book Form
As we’ve written before, Twitter’s impact on the Arab world is well-documented, notably in the key role it played in the Arab Spring uprisings.
And new research suggests that Twitter use in the Middle East is very much on the rise.
So it’s unsurprising that a new novel called Kapow! by British author Adam Thirlwell takes a look at social media’s role in the Arab Spring — in book form.
As FastCoDesign writes, “Thousands of personal accounts, broadcast through Twitter, email, and weblog, mingled with the reports of newscasters and mainstream journalists to weave a living, breathing fabric of stories.”
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