FB and Twitter

"Or at least that was the giddy narrative embraced by the young activists. Already, there was a robust debate about how influential websites such as Facebook and Twitter actually proved in the rebellion. The most prominent skeptic, the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, has argued that such online forms of communication did not affect the nature of the revolution. "People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented," he wrote last week.  But others made the case that technology amplified the protesters' message, helping build international support for their cause."