Twitter sparks revolution

[Remus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter

— A crowd of more than 10,000 young Moldovans materialized seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday to protest against Moldova’s Communist leadership, ransacking government buildings and clashing with the police.

The sea of young people reflected the deep generation gap that has developed in Moldova, and the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network.

The protesters created their own searchable tag on Twitter, rallying Moldovans to join and propelling events in this small former Soviet state onto a Twitter list of newly popular topics, so people around the world could keep track.

After hundreds of firsthand accounts flooded onto the Internet via Twitter, Internet service in Chisinau, the capital, was abruptly cut off.

The immediate cause of the protests were parliamentary elections held on Sunday, in which Communists won 50 percent of the vote, enough to allow them to select a new president and amend the Constitution. Though the Communists were expected to win, their showing was stronger than expected, and opposition leaders accused the government of vote-rigging.

Viva la short lived revolution

 

[Acepilotf14]

Don't be so quick, Remus. Anti-Commie revolutions sometimes go places.
Not like those shitty african ones.

 

[Solaris]

Bloody reactionaries.

 

[<RJMC>]

Bloody reactionaries.

lol I knew this woud happen

I remnber when the riots in greece where happeneing eveyone was like "things are getting awsome in greece" and now that this is a protest against comunist is all the oposite

 

[Remus]

Well quite frankly I refuse to sympathise with them. When the iron curtain fell there were proposals to unify Romania and Moldova under a democratic government. They referred to be independent and ended up choosing a comunist government which they've had ever since. Not happy how things worked out? Well though luck, deal with it.

 

[Shakermaker]

Don't try to shift the blame, dude.

Romania is involved in everything that has happened. Patience also has its limits.

 

[Remus]

Don't try to shift the blame, dude.

Because president Voroni is clearly a saint that speaks the truth and nothing but the truth, am I right?

Romania is involved in everything that has happened.

Let me ask you this mr president... how could we have orchestrated or contributed to the protests since all romanians that wanted to enter Moldova have been stoped and turned back recently.

Patience also has its limits.

So does ours.

P.S. I hope you get hit by a freight train.

 

[Apocalypse89]

Well quite frankly I refuse to sympathise with them. When the iron curtain fell there were proposals to unify Romania and Moldova under a democratic government. They referred to be independent and ended up choosing a comunist government which they've had ever since. Not happy how things worked out? Well though luck, deal with it.

I don't know much about the situation, but I doubt most of the people involved in these protests were either alive or old enough to care about politics when the iron curtain fell.

 

[Adabiviak]

Twitter facilitates revolution.

Fixed.

 

[Shakermaker]

RT @dragos: The myth of the Moldova 'Twitter revolution': http://alturl.com/7mm3 #moldova #moldavie #moldavia #romania #twitter #revolution #press

tl;dr version: Twitter hardly played a roll. The net did though. This revolution basically was a flash mob.

Wired jumps on the Twitter bandwagon as well, but a good read nonetheless.

EDIT

lol

RT @FranklyFlorida:The Twitter-organized Moldova revolt is a lesson for repressive regimes: They must forge an alliance with The Fail Whale.

 

[Remus]

This revolution basically was a flash mob.

Which is why I said: "Viva la short lived revolution". It amplified quickly and died out just as quick.

They must forge an alliance with The Fail Whale.

LOL

 

[L3N!N]

So I heard some talk about "communism"?

 

[Bob_Marley]

Free Transnistria!