Social media is so popular these days that it even has major effects on mass social movements. It especially had a major effect on the so-called "Arab Spring" that started in 2011 in North African and Middle Eastern countries.
The Arab Spring is a media term for the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010.
To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt (twice) Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan.
Researchers from Washington University have analyzed more then 3 millions of tweets, thousands of blog post, hundreds of gigabytes of Youtube videos and created a massive database. They focused especially on Egypt and Tunisia, filtering the results using some keywords, and finally proved that the social media was the major driving force of the revolutions.
We can say that the most active use of social media in the revolutions were in Egypt. People used Facebook to become organized, twitter and hashtags for sharing instant information, and uploaded violent torture videos on Youtube.
Although the government blocked Facebook and Twitter, people found workarounds to access social media websites and organize protests. Here's an infographic on the social media revolution in Egypt:
Actually, ı have no enough information about the arab spring but in this blog I learned that arab spring manuplate with social via american and other sources. Thanks to social media many government fell down and the public underpressure because of arab spring
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