Using cellphones and social media tools, demonstrators shared developments in their cities in real time Saturday for all the world to see.
They captured remarks by the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to protesters in London, and recorded the violence at a rally that attracted tens of thousands in Rome, among other events.
Posting links on Twitter and Facebook, they uploaded photos and videos to YouTube and image-sharing sites like Bambuser and Yfrog. In Spain, protesters uploaded live video from Madrid on Ustream, a video-sharing site.
Organizers in New York City also used their Global Revolution channel on Livestream to deliver live video feeds of the protests in New York. Comments about the global protests from users around the world could be found on the channel, with links to videos and live streams of protests.
The online conversation about Occupy Wall Street grew steadily on social media platforms in recent weeks and increased among users abroad in the last week as the global demonstrations approached. According to Trendrr, a social media analysis company, the number of posts about Occupy Wall Street on Twitter outside the United States grew to more than 25 percent of total posts Friday, up from 15 percent during the same period the week before.
Throughout the day Saturday, overall volume on Twitter doubled, and the number of posts on Twitter from outside the United States increased to 47 percent from 25 percent, an analysis from Trendrr showed. Of the posts from outside the United States, 7 percent were from Britain, 7 percent from Canada, 6 percent from Spain, 2 percent from Germany and the rest from other nations.
On Facebook, the overall audience has grown to more
than 1.2 million in the past two weeks as hundreds of Facebook pages have been created around the country and the world. Dozens of global Facebook pages now focus on the protest, including Occupy Brazil, Occupy Berlin, Occupy Sydney and Occupy Tokyo.
Users also turned to Meetup.com and Foursquare, a geolocation service, to help find one another and organize protests.
The Occupy the London Stock Exchange Facebook page has more than 19,000 members and became a platform Saturday for people attending a march in London to share real-time updates, photos and videos.
One person complained about a delayed response by the police during the riots in Britain in August but pointed out that the police were equipped with riot gear at the protest Saturday.
On the Facebook page Occupy Together, which has more than 131,000 members, an update about the planned demonstrations was shared by more than 500 people and commented on by 250 people around the world.
Source from : The Economic Times
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The online conversation about Occupy Wall Street grew steadily on social media platforms in recent weeks and increased among users abroad in the last week as the global demonstrations approached. According to Trendrr, a social media analysis company, the number of posts about Occupy Wall Street on Twitter outside the United States grew to more than 25 percent of total posts Friday, up from 15 percent during the same period the week before.
Organizers in New York City also used their Global Revolution channel on Livestream to deliver live video feeds of the protests in New York. Comments about the global protests from users around the world could be found on the channel, with links to videos and live streams of protests.
Throughout the day Saturday, overall volume on Twitter doubled, and the number of posts on Twitter from outside the United States increased to 47 percent from 25 percent, an analysis from Trendrr showed. Of the posts from outside the United States, 7 percent were from Britain, 7 percent from Canada, 6 percent from Spain, 2 percent from Germany and the rest from other nations.
On the Facebook page Occupy Together, which has more than 131,000 members, an update about the planned demonstrations was shared by more than 500 people and commented on by 250 people around the world.
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