by Dreamtwister » Tue 07 Apr 2009, 14:59:11
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Maddog78', 'S')o it is very effective for conjuring up mobs?
Interesting.

Yes, and to great effect. It takes the old "phone tree" (Ask any activist from the 60's about those) and ramps it up by several orders of magnitude.
Wikipedia on smart mobsFor example, during RNC/08, the police raided a couple of activists' homes. Well one of them was running a twitter network at the time. All he had to do was tweet one word "arrested", and his network mobilized.
By the time the police were finished securing the house, the guy's twitter network had found lawyers, summoned the media (both mainstream and independant) and organized a protest *at the arrest site*. There were 100 people on-site before the detainees were taken out of the house.
But my personal favorite is
this one. Prince William has a smart mob of teenage stalkers. I don't know if they use twitter, but it would certainly work for them.
The whole of human history is a refutation by experiment of the concept of "moral world order". - Friedrich Nietzsche