If folks are wondering why "Twitter activism" matters, this is why.
Media ignored reports and video secret police disappearings of protesters until they started trending on Twitter.
Now, even Chuck Schumer is calling for investigations.
Media ignored reports and video secret police disappearings of protesters until they started trending on Twitter.
Now, even Chuck Schumer is calling for investigations.
Twitter is no substitute for deep organizing, base creation, and relationship-building, but the media and political establishment pays close attention to it.
For pressure campaigns, it's an invaluable tool, especially when we're all mostly stuck inside.
For pressure campaigns, it's an invaluable tool, especially when we're all mostly stuck inside.
Media operations and politicians really do look to Twitter to see what they can and can't afford to ignore, it's the only thing Bari Weiss has ever gotten right and that makes Twitter an extremely powerful tool for deploying organized power
(And btw, Twitter *can* be used for relationship-building and organizing, I wouldn't have lovely people like @kittystryker and @wagatwe in my life without it. It's just not as geared towards network-building as, say, Facebook. Or even better, face-to-face, but... COVID.)
