I was quoted yesterday in an Associated Press story on the role of social media in Iran’s “Green Revolution”.
Gaurav Mishra, CEO of the social media research and strategy company 20:20 WebTech, said Twitter and Facebook do help get news out of Iran, but he warned against exaggerating their power to enact change.
“At best, these tools are catalysts, which are very important roles, but should not be overrated,” he said. “To expect Twitter and Facebook on their own to make a fundamental change in that situation is expecting too much.”
The story has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Las Vegas Sun, Boston Globe, ABC7/ WJLA and NPR, amongst others.
I had earlier written about the irony of calling Iran’s “Green Revolution” a “Twitter Revolution” and was quoted in BusinessWeek, Forbes, BBC, MSNBC, Associated Press, and Worldfocus amongst others.
