Catalyst

After reading the first chapter of Evgeny Morozov's  The Net Delusion I have been introduced to the impact the internet had on the Iranian Green Movement. in 2009, Iranians gathered in Tehran to protest against the presidential elections, which had been thought to be rigged, or unfair. Protesters demanded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be removed from office. The global spread and awareness of these protests was made possible by an unlikely source: Twitter. The social networking site was used as a medium of communication by the protesters, and it acted as a catalyst to impulse the movement around the world.