5 Best Things in Social Media

This week: Social unrest, #SOTU, your so-called sponsored life, paying for Hulu and a ridiculously good-looking old friend 

Best political use of social media by a people: the citizens of Egypt
This week, the world once again witnessed the power of social media to organize, mobilize and document political movements. Inspired by the successful revolution in Tunisia, Egypt has been using social networks like Flickr to share images and videos of protests against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. In the last day, the government has forced an unprecedented Internet and mobile network shutdown on its people. Earlier this morning, Twitter responded to the act of censorship on their blog. 
 
Best political use of social media by a government: the Obama Administration
In stark contrast to the political melee in Egypt, American leaders leaned heavily on social media this week to get their agendas out. The White House not only live-streamed but tweeted the State […]

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