The beginning of the year is the time to look back on what has just passed us by - through Top of the Year lists. While many will be publishing their lists of the best of 2012, I'm more interested in what happens over at Cracked; they try to identify what typified the year that was. This is, to me, far more interesting, and so, I will be offering my take on the same 8 categories that Cracked's columnists wrote on.
If you missed yesterday's post, I wrote about the Movie of the Year.
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Tweet of the Year: Syria Turns Off the Internet
The unrest in the Middle East was one of the biggest stories of the year, and Twitter was at the forefront of the conflicts. Twitter, in essence, tore down the wall that existed between the government and the public; acting as a way to organize protests as well as delivering news to the rest of the world that may have otherwise not been made public.
I really do believe that Twitter is the way of the future for journalism - not only world politics, but sports and local news as well; there now exists an onus on journalists to communicate with their audience. And that's fantastic.
While Cloudflare (and the accompanying article) is not the definitive Twitter account of 2012, when the Syrian government turned off all Internet connections as a response to the revolters, it summed up how prominent of a role social media has played in the conflicts.
Runner Up:
This has nothing to do with 2012, or the article, I just wanted to plug the fact that I now have Twitter, and it's all about funny things I hear at school. Give it a follow.
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