In October of 2010, Malcolm Galdwell wrote a piece for The New Yorker on “why the revolution will not be tweeted.” I felt at the time that his critique was rather harsh; online/offline efforts are usually the most successful when we’re describing and measuring returns on social media (The 2008 US Presidential campaign remains an excellent example).

Certainly, Twitter fueled the protests in Iran, but we were prompted by Gladwell to consider this with regards to offline results of online efforts: Continue reading →