If you write from right to left in your native language you are in luck! Earlier this year Twitter made it possible for people to write in their native language from right to left. This makes it easier for them to have trending topics in their language. I believe if this was around during the Arab Springs it would have been a lot easier for the riots to form because people would be able to follow all of the different trending topics. I think it is great that people can now make hash tags in their native language. On the other hand though, I feel like now there may be more problems. I feel that social media will now have a bigger impact within the Middle Eastern countries when it comes to rioting since they can now see trending topics in their own language. More people will be able to participate, find, and follow all of the trending topics since they can now read it in their language. Do you think that this could be a problem in the future?
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-Erika
This was a cool little video. I do agree that this will give social media a bit more of a bigger role in rioting. The problem, then, will be the retrieving of (mis)information. With social media networks increasing their ways in which people can communicate internationally and even nationally, gives the information being read a little more incredibility. Since anyone can post and edit almost anything on the internet, there will be the issue of whether crucial information being read and taken into consider is actually in fact true. So, although advancing social media networking may be beneficial to some Middle Easterners for stronger protests, it could be detrimental if the information is not entirely true.
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