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They bought Twitter specifically because of twiiters role in the Arab spring so they could prevent the revolutionary fever spread to Saudi Arabia. It worked.
by ryanx435 9y ago
They bought Twitter specifically because of twiiters role in the Arab spring so they could prevent the revolutionary fever spread to Saudi Arabia.
It worked.
- yters 9y agoThis is a more interesting angle than merely looking for ROI. The power of social media to bring about unrest is definitely an incentive for regimes to control said social media. OTOH, we are now getting decentralized social media such as Mastodon.