January 2011 | Twitter proves its worth

This was the year that social networking proved that it absolutely was regarding over trivia, with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry taking part in very important – if disputed – roles in organising everything from the Arab Spring to the London riots.

In January, as news broke of the shooting of an yankee congresswoman, Twitter proved its price as a rolling news service. It conjointly came fraught from the US Department of Justice to call users connected with Wikileaks – this was conjointly a year when social networks had to circle the wagons as governments questioned their motives.

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