Starting with the Tunisian revolution, the "Arab Spring" brought the attention of the world to the Middle East - North Africa region in a whole new way. Social media were used to organize and communicate as people in country after country in the region rose up and demanded their freedom and human rights.

The West apparently never saw it coming, because the Internet connections were made mainly via mobile phone. Yet the signs were there. Unofficial estimates put the number of Twitter users in

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