Virtual Revolution BBC

1. S
What is Twitter?
How it changed our lives?
Deltombe Simon

2. summary
S What is Twitter
S How it works
S His evolution
S How social media changed our lives
S What happenned in Iran
S The Oxford Girl
S conclusion

3. Questions
Who often use Twitter?
How often?
Why?

4. What is Twitter
S Made in 2006
S From San Francisco
S Social Network
S Made to stay in touch with
friends

5. Tweets
S Enables you to send
messages
S To everyone who follows
you
S From your phone or your
computer
S Up to 140 characters long

6. Phenomenon
S Tweets quickly start to flood
the web
S Peoples recountings their lives
S Peoples giving their opinion
S Firstly seems to be something
for geeks
S Finaly one of the most used
social network

7. Question
Since when do you use Twitter?

8. Twitter’s evolution
Twitter in 2006

9. Twitter’s evolution
Twitter today

10. Question
Who know what happend
in Iran in June 2009?

11. Video

12. Iran : June 2009
S Présidential election day
S They thought that election was
rigged
S Opposition supporters go onto
the streets to vent their anger
S Riot police hit back

13. Iran : June 2009
S Authority ban any media
reporting those facts
S Population finaly turn to twitter
to tell the world what was
happening
S In 18 days, 2 millions tweets
were sent out of Iran

14. Iran : June 2009
S The hell for Iranian
S Police is arresting opposition
S Riots on the streets
S No freedom of expression
S Some peoples get shot on the
streets
S Struggle for their life

15. The Oxford Girl
S Iranian Woman living in England
S Received many tweets about
What was happening in Iran
S She don’t show her face
S To protect his family in Iran
S She forwarded those tweets
S To a wider public
S Become a crucial link between
protester and outside world

16. Other usefull web media
S Video sharing sites like
Youtube
S Used by Iranian
S Permit to make the world
witness
S Facebook
S Few Blogs

17. Creators of Twitter
S Those geek who ran twitter aren’t surprised about how it
turns
S It becomes a weapon of revolution

18. Conclusion
S The web is a big toolbox
S We changes our tools, then out tools changes us
S Then this cycle continues

19. Any Question?
Thanks for listening!