Revolutions are based on so called strong-ties: people acting together in groups of close friends which are held together by the same motives. Social media only connects people loosely (soft ties), which is not enough to start a revolution. Lybia’s uprising didn’t work because of twitter or Facebook. It succeeded because of good friends sharing the same belief and acting together. This is in a nutshell what Malcolm Gladwell argues in his wonderful New Yorker Article. Read it here >>
