"Small change; Why the Revolution will not be tweeted"

The article "Small change; Why the Revolution will not be tweeted," by Malcolm Gladwell uses a reference to a civil rights war that engulfed the south in the early 1960's to show that a huge group of people can come together without using the internet and uses other references through the article to show as examples. The world having all these internet connections today allows people to connect with others and give themselves a voice. Twitter is used by people all over the world to communicate their political opinions.  The author says that twitter is a way for people to follow other people that they most likely will never meet. Facebook is more used for keeping in touch with people you know. The author notes that weak ties rarely lead to high-risk activism and the platforms of social media such as Twitter are built around weak ties. Twitter is considered an upgrade for activism considered to how it used to be. The author states that networks do not have any kind of authority. In order for networks to be successful they need to be willing to change systematically.

I agree with what Gladwell says that the social networks gives us an opportunity to speak are minds without anyone telling us we can’t. Twitter is really a great way to follow anyone you want and share your opinions with them. It is true that Facebook is more of a way to stay connected with the people we know but they are changing it all the time and making it so we can get connected with organizations and groups that we care about. I enjoyed reading this article, it gave me a lot of insight to Twitter and what it is mostly about and how it has been very beneficial to people all over the world.