Moldova's Rebel Youth Use Twitter to Organize

Rebels or dissaffected youth have not waited for Twitter or Facebook to rock governments. Just remember the 60s and the capacity of Paris contestataires or of the U.S. New Left to challenge the Establishment.
However these new technologies are compressing the time needed to organize social movements and spread the word around the world. The recent Moldova protests have illustrated the power of social media in circumventing censored state-owned media. As Ellen Barry mentions in her reportage in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html "the sea of young people used their generation's tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network"
When the communist-led Moldovan government decided to shut down the Internet a youth group turned to mobile phones.
To know more: check the very interesting work of Evegeny Morozov, a specialist on technology and politics with the Open Society Institute http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/07/moldovas_twitter_revolution