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> Has Twitter ever been in the news for properly making even a thousand people successful from scratch really ever in the product's life? There was the Arab Sp
by Beldin 4y ago
> Has Twitter ever been in the news for properly making even a thousand people successful from scratch really ever in the product's life?
There was the Arab Spring (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring), where it played a significant role.
- kmeisthax 4y agoThe Arab Spring should have been looked at as a warning sign, but everyone in America was still in full-on neoconservative "we will be welcomed as liberators" mode. No private company should have the power to overthrow governments.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago> no private company should have the power to overthrow governments Go tell that to Raytheon and Blackwater as well.
- speeder 4y agoI wouldn't consider that as the success op means... I mean, surely, it some people were successful, but success of warlords intending to genocide blacks in Lybia or starting a new violent caliphate or kidnapping boys en masse to be child soldiers is not the sort or success I want to be enabled with technology.