Twitter and other social media platforms have become instrumental in the spread of knowledge for obvious reasons. They have become particularly useful in the spread of information and knowledge from oppressed countries whose free speech has been constrained. The universal anonymous nature of these things has led to the inability of the oppressors to keep tabs on the spread of this information.

Because these forums simply exists in the clouds, they allow for information to be seen from anywhere on the planet. Protesters in Egypt used twitter to send out important information for rallies and group protests. The article says, “Twitter emerged as a key source for real-time logistical coordination, information, and discussion among people.” Twitter became the key organizational tool for the resisters. Because twitter is used as both a professional platform for journalism, as well as a platform for citizen journalism there was a considerable amount of information that was shared by both recieving equal attention.

The relationship between social networking sites and news organizations is becoming more and more interesting. Because of the simplicity of the sites citizen journalism has spiked tremendously. This influx in citizen journalism has helped spread the knowledge of certain things happening around the world at a wildfire pace with no cost to major news organizations. Twitter has essentially become it’s own user run news organization.