Monday, June 03, 2013

Amid Turkey Unrest, Social Media Becomes a Battleground - Middle East Real Time - WSJ

Amid Turkey Unrest, Social Media Becomes a Battleground

By Joe Parkinson

A clash between protesters and the political class over Turkey’s traditional media coverage of the uprising has broken out: on Twitter.

Use of the social networking website has soared in Turkey as the protests have gathered pace, with at least 2 million tweets on the demonstrations being sent between 4pm and midnight on Friday alone, according to a study by New York University.

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