James Brody
April 23rd, 2009, 12:59 PM
"What are you doing?"
"That now-familiar question to any 20-something Twitterer often elicits answers ranging from watching a sitcom to standing in a Starbucks queue. Today, however, for some Twitterers in the Eastern European nation of Moldova, the answer apparently is:
'We're launching a peaceful anti-communist revolution!'
"While international pundits have been thumbing through color swatches in anticipation of Moldova's protests falling into the pattern of the Color Revolutions that swept Eastern Europe several years ago, young Moldovans themselves are angling to put their own name on their uprising – they're calling it "the Orphans' Revolution," as one-third of all young Moldovans have parents who have gone to find work in other countries under the current communist regime – and they are using Twitter as an electronic organizing tool."
More at http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009/04/twitterers_of_the_world_unite.html
"That now-familiar question to any 20-something Twitterer often elicits answers ranging from watching a sitcom to standing in a Starbucks queue. Today, however, for some Twitterers in the Eastern European nation of Moldova, the answer apparently is:
'We're launching a peaceful anti-communist revolution!'
"While international pundits have been thumbing through color swatches in anticipation of Moldova's protests falling into the pattern of the Color Revolutions that swept Eastern Europe several years ago, young Moldovans themselves are angling to put their own name on their uprising – they're calling it "the Orphans' Revolution," as one-third of all young Moldovans have parents who have gone to find work in other countries under the current communist regime – and they are using Twitter as an electronic organizing tool."
More at http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009/04/twitterers_of_the_world_unite.html