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
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
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
