Wired blogs about the use of Twitter to coordinate recent street demonstrations:
San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.
The group, called Direct Action to Stop the War, has planned protests and staged events at strategic locations around the city, such as AT&T’s facilities on Folsom, where whistle blower and retired AT&T technician Mark Klein says the company has installed equipment to snoop on Americans’ internet communications. They’re using Twitter to text people’s cellphones to get them to come to support the protest and to lend it critical mass at opportune times.
Wired blogs about the use of Twitter to coordinate recent street demonstrations:
San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.
The group, called Direct Action to Stop the War, has planned protests and staged events at strategic locations around [...]













