Protesters opposed to Moldova’s Communist leaders threw a sofa out a window in Parliament in the capital on Tuesday.
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter
By ELLEN BARRY
A sea of young people used text messages and the Internet to appear out of nowhere to protest Communist leaders.
A crowd of more than 10,000 young Moldovans materialized seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday to protest against Moldova’s Communist leadership, ransacking government buildings and clashing with the police.
The sea of young people reflected the deep generation gap that has developed in Moldova, and the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network.
The protesters created their own searchable tag on Twitter, rallying Moldovans to join and propelling events in this small former Soviet state onto a Twitter list of newly popular topics, so people around the world could keep track.
Technology changing the world.
After hundreds of firsthand accounts flooded onto the Internet via Twitter, Internet service in Chisinau, the capital, was abruptly cut off.
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