It’s Arab Spring, and Social Media is blazing its own trail in the history books. After Tunisia’s revolution, nobody thought that a people’s uprising would spread to another country in the region. Experts the world over published news articles and editorials telling us how Egypt isn’t Tunisia, Syria isn’t Tunsia or Saudi Arabia isn’t Tunisia. Yet here we are today, in the midst of an historic regional uprising with implications for the whole world, implications that could change the course of world history giving a region rife with conflict, despotism and colonization the chance for real freedom and choice. Without Twitter and Facebook, it’s entirely possible that this would not have happened.
Below you will find the ultimate social media guide to the “Arab Spring,” Twitter accounts from leaders and people on the ground to homepages of revolutions on Facebook. Facebook isthe soapbox they stand on, and Twitter is the Megaphone through which they speak.
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Arab Spring Social Media Resources |
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Twitter has embraced its role in the Pan-Arab uprisings. While the core of rebellion was born on Facebook, it’s Twitter where word really spread and organizations and opposition groups organized themsleves. Twitter is full of activists on the inside and out who post minute by minute Tweets of what is going on in every hotspot in the Pan-Arab uprising. From refugees and expats in England to leaders and activists in Iran, Twitter has them all. Information comes in so quickly in fact that its hard to keep up with it all. It is raw and uncensored information straight to your computer.
Facebook has no doubt proved the most vital source of rebellion on the net. It is from Facebook pages where activists rallied the people in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, etc. to the call that it was time for change, to assemble, let your voices be heard and take to the streets on such and such date. One could call Facebook the “Cradle of the Revolution”.
Unfortunately Facebook has deleted several opposition group accounts due to terms of service violations. The most recent being a page calling for a 3rd Palestinian Intifada for May 15th, 2011 against both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority with over 200,000+ “Likes”.
When Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois sent Facebook a letter requesting that it amend its no-anonymity policy to protect democratic activists in the Middle East, Facebook said no. Despite this, dozens of pages dedicated to the various uprisings remain and are active everyday posting pictures, video and news stories about what is happening in their respective countries.
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AFGHANISTAN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
March 18th 2011 DAY of
Rage Across Afghanistan |
#afghanistan |
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#mar18 |
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ALGERIA |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Envoyés Spéciaux Algériens |
#algeria |
Algerian Revolution |
#bouteflika |
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#algerie |
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BAHRAIN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/BahrainRights |
14th February 2011
Revolution Day in Bahrain |
http://twitter.com/BAHRAINIAC |
True Royal Democracy |
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Bahrain Revolution News |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Freedom Square |
#bahrain |
People Announce a General
Strike in Bahrain |
#pearlsqaure |
February 14 Uprising
Newspaper |
#lulu |
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#14feb |
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#feb14 |
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DJIBOUTI |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/PRIDE_DJIB |
Djibouti Bientot |
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Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#djibouti |
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EGYPT |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/Ghonim |
25 Egypt |
http://twitter.com/#!/25Egypt |
El Shaheed |
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Al Shohada 2 |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Secular Egypt |
#egypt |
El Shaheed UK |
#ghonim |
Yom Elsawra 25 January |
#25jan |
Wael-Ghonim |
#jan25 |
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#tahrir |
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#elbaradei |
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#mubarak |
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IRAN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/Uprising4Iran |
Iranian Protest News |
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Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#iran |
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#persia |
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#mousavi |
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IRAQ |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/IRAQIRevolution |
Iraq Revolution |
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Ahrar Iraq |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Iraq 7 |
#iraq |
Revolution of Iraq on
25th of February |
#25feb |
Support Iraq |
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Youth Movement Reform Iraq |
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JORDAN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/JordanVoice_ |
Jordanian Revolution 2011 |
http://twitter.com/#!/AliChubby |
Shbab March 24 |
http://www.twitter.com/7erak |
April 15 2011 |
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7 Erak |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Youth Movement for Change |
#jordan |
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#amman |
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#apr15 |
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#15apr |
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#24mar |
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#mar24 |
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Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#kuwait |
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LIBYA |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/ShababLibya |
Libyan Youth Movement |
http://twitter.com/#!/feb17libya |
17-02-2011 Libya |
http://twitter.com/#!/ChangeInLibya |
Videos of the Libyan
Revolution |
http://twitter.com/#!/Libyan4life |
Tunisians Support Libyans
17 February |
http://twitter.com/#!/Tripolitanian |
Thawrat Libya |
http://twitter.com/#!/LibyaFeb17_com |
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http://twitter.com/#!/libyanfsl |
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http://twitter.com/#!/EnoughGaddafi |
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http://twitter.com/#!/Cyrenaican |
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http://twitter.com/#!/FreeLibyanman |
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http://twitter.com/#!/LibyaSupreme |
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http://twitter.com/#!/feb17voices |
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http://twitter.com/#!/weddady |
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Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#libya |
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#gaddafi |
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#benghazi |
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#feb17 |
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#17feb |
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#gaddaficrimes |
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#zintan |
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#misrata |
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MOROCCO |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/
Moroccan4Change |
Moroccans for Change |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#morocco |
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#mar20 |
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#feb20 |
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#khitab |
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OMAN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Oman Revolution |
#oman |
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PALESTINE |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/ThirdIntifada |
Palestinian Intifada 3 From
Tunisia |
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Palestinian Intifada |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#palestine |
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#gaza |
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#westbank |
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#15may |
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#may15 |
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SAUDI ARABIA |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Hijaz Revolution |
#saudiarabia |
K.S.A. Revolution |
#11mar |
Saudis Revolution |
#march11 |
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#mar11 |
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#saudimataleb |
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SUDAN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Sudan The Revolution 10
June 2011 |
#sudan |
Sudan Revolution 2011 |
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30th January Sudanese
Youth Strike |
SYRIA |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/Mohammad_Syria |
Syrian Free Press |
http://twitter.com/#!/FreeSoria |
For Democratic Syria |
http://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousSyria |
End State of Emergency
in Syria |
http://twitter.com/#!/SyRevVid |
Syrian Revolution |
http://twitter.com/#!/SyrianFreePress |
Days of Rage |
http://twitter.com/#!/1SecularSyrian |
Syrian Day of Rage |
http://twitter.com/#!/SyrianJasmine |
Freedom of Syria |
http://twitter.com/#!/syrianews |
Syrian Revolution Videos |
http://twitter.com/#!/syriarevolution |
Egyptians & Tunisians w/
Young Syrian
Uprising 15/03/2011 |
http://twitter.com/#!/ZainSyr |
23 Million |
http://twitter.com/#!/hkhabbab |
Syrian Women Revolution |
http://twitter.com/#!/syrianfront |
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http://twitter.com/#!/SyrianRage |
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http://twitter.com/#!/SyriansHand |
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http://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousSyria |
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Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#syria |
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#daraa |
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#assad |
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#mar15 |
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#march15 |
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#15mar |
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TUNISIA |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/LiberateTunisia |
Tunisian Revolt |
http://twitter.com/#!/actu_tunisie |
Sans Ben Ali |
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14 Janvier 2011 TN |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#tunisia |
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#sidibouzid |
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#jan14 |
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#bouazizi |
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#benali |
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YEMEN |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/yemenMG |
Yemen Revolution |
http://twitter.com/yemenfreevoice |
Yemen 2011 |
http://twitter.com/YERevolutions |
Rased Yemen |
http://twitter.com/#!/yemen4change |
Al Tagheer 2011 |
http://twitter.com/#!/RASEDYEMEN |
Aden Youth for Change |
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THAORT SHBAB YEMEN |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
Rased Yemen |
#yemen |
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#yf |
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#saleh |
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PAN-ARAB |
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Twitter |
Facebook |
http://twitter.com/#!/ArabRevolution |
Arab Revolution 2011 |
http://twitter.com/#!/ArabsUnite |
Intern’l Year of the Arab
Leaders to Take Off in 2011 |
http://twitter.com/#!/Maghreblog |
Change |
Search Terms & Hashtags |
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#arabspring |
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#arabrevolution |
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