Twitter Proves Pivotal In Dissemination Of Information During Taksim Square Protests

From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, social media – and Twitter in particular – has played a focal role in many of recent years’ most tumultuous public demonstrations.

The protests taking place in Turkey add to that trend, placing an even greater emphasis on how powerful a communicative tool Twitter is.

The protests in Turkey, organized initially in response to government plans to tear down the green space in Taksim Square and replace it with a shopping center, have, as Al Jazeera reports, “morphed into a more visceral expression of the general discontent with the government’s policies over the last several years.”

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