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Promote the Carnival against capitalism on Twitter

Stop the G8 | 17.05.2013 17:53

Calling all activists to use Twitter to promote the carnival against capitalism on Tuesday June the 11th in central London. Millions of people can be reached very quickly via Twitter so get spreading the word of the June 11th carnival.

The official Stop the G8 Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/stopG8UK

Stop the G8

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Not Twitter

17.05.2013 20:50

Capitalist tool of the devil

Use indymedia or nothing

dave

@dave

17.05.2013 21:21

That's a vicious smear and if indymedia wasn't anonymous I'd sue you for libel.

I have never used twitter, it's shit.

Lucifer

mid class

18.05.2013 00:24

Wannabe working class day trippers mid class demo march. Working class we just survive.

council flat man

@Dave virtually nobody reads indymedia!!!!

18.05.2013 11:25

Virtually no one reads indymedia excepts a few dozens anarchists! No way can you reach millions of people via indymedia. On by using mass media like Facebook and Twitter can you reach millions of people. 99.999 per cent of the UK population do not even know that Indymedia even exists let alone us it!!!

Use your common sense

not true no one reads indymedia

18.05.2013 20:08

It depends on the content of the article, a good article will be picked by possibly hundreds of news pages and blogs. If the subject is good. It depends a lot on the headline. I publish on I indymedia and then google the headline an hour later, depends, sometimes there dozens of hits sometimes just a few. Some do better than others a Punchy head line seems to be the key.

Batt Flattery

Faceplant and Twatbird.

20.05.2013 09:21

"On by using mass media like Facebook and Twitter can you reach millions of people."

That's complete rubbish. The whole output of Facebook and Twitter might reach millions but your little page is only ever going to reach hundreds at a time at best. Your story published on Indymedia will routinely outperform both Facebook and Twitter because its a specialist audience.

The audience on Indymedia arent the attention deficit Facebook and Twitter crowd, they are skilled, clever and committed. That is why you spend so much of your time attacking Indymedia and belittling it.

Facebook and Twitter are overrated rubbish. Indymedia routinely beats them both.

anonymous

False logic

20.05.2013 17:01

>> The audience on Indymedia arent the attention deficit Facebook and Twitter crowd, they are skilled, clever and committed. That is why you spend so much of your time attacking Indymedia and belittling it.

Err... I havn't got a clue how you have come to that conclusion.

"The audience on Indymedia are very small. Indymedia isn't used anywhere near as much as Twitter and Facebook. That is why you spend so much of your time attacking Indymedia and belittling it."

Because:
a) It is little
b) It is not as effective at it's job as twitter or facebook

People criticise things that don't work. They don't criticise and "attack" things that work

schoolboy

o rilly

21.05.2013 00:21

"They don't criticise and "attack" things that work"

Possibly the dumbest thing ever said in defence of Indymedia.

he means it too

You can reach the masses by using Facebook and Twitter

21.05.2013 09:26

QUOTE: "Facebook and Twitter are overrated rubbish. Indymedia routinely beats them both."

What you do not realise is that you can reach the masses by using Indymedia and Twitter. But by just using Indymedia you can only reach the hardcore activist crowd which is probably no bigger than around 2000. It is also patronising to think that the working class masses who use Facebook and Twitter are not interested in revolution or protest. Were we not also told that the same crowd also marched in their millions against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? So much for the masses being dumb brain dead sheep who swallow government propaganda and cannot think for themselves.

Anarchist

IM, Statusnet, and the twit-o-sphere

22.05.2013 23:21

Don't use facebook it's for spying on peeps, working out their networks and political disposition The info is for sale to any one and intel has a direct line into it.

You can tweet from IM by including a hash tag in the title it goes out to twit-er via statusnet anonymously. i.e. it acts as an anonymising bridge to twitter

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/01/490877.html

arse_book

UK Indymedia