Using Twitter to Organize Protests
March 19th, 2008 | by Crash the Conventions |Today’s the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and there have been a ton of actions that have stopped business as usual for the day.
Wired had a great post today about San Fransico’s Direct Action to Stop the War group. DASW has been using the micro-blogging service called Twitter as a way to get out up-to-the-minute news to fellow protesters. Their micro-blogs are posted online and sent out as text messages to cell phones across the city, letting people know about the status of different actions. Check out their twitter page for some examples of announcements.
Txtmob and other cell-phone messaging services have been used in the past at mass mobilizations, but twitter has a viral element to it that could get the help keep the info moving.
This looks like a great technology to use at the conventions this summer. Do you know of any existing Twitter pages that are going to be used for the RNC or DNC? Is it too soon? Comment below!