Twitter on the front line

There may have been few things that protesters, politicians and activists share, but during the G20 meeting, according to the BBC, they were united by their use of Twitter.

The micro-blogging service was heavily used by all those involved with the meeting, be they in the debating chamber, quizzing politicians after briefings, or protesting beyond the police cordon.

... Plans for how many policemen and women should be put on the streets during the G20 were drawn up with regard to this analysis.

But it was during the two-day event that social media, in particular Twitter, came in to their own. Thousands of messages marked with a #G20 tag passed through Twitter and organisations such as IndyMedia had their own tags that helped to collate information about what happened during the protests.

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emily | 8:42 AM | Twitter |
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