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maradydd ([personal profile] maradydd) wrote2009-02-10 08:33 pm

Brainstorm!

Prompted by a discussion with [livejournal.com profile] bunnykitteh, who's good at prompting these kinds of things:

Imagine a Facebook and/or MySpace application aimed at organising flash mobs for political action (e.g., the kind of thing Anonymous might use to quickly notify members of imminent $cientology activity in a particular location). What features should it have? (Twitter gateway?)

(Note that with Facebook, especially, there are all kinds of interesting concerns with respect to privacy...)

[identity profile] evelien.livejournal.com 2009-02-10 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Facebook during the election had an application where you could sign up to have your status automatically updated every 2 hours to urge people to go vote. 1,745,754 people signed up, and in just under 5 days, sent out 4,919,071 status messages. The largest online rally in history.