When Mark DeBonis was asked by a talent booker to think up an idea for an entertainment show at the last minute, DeBois spit out the first thing that came to his mind: a Twitter Gong show.
At the time, DeBonis—a stand-up comedian—was half joking; he wasn’t really sure exactly what a Twitter Gong show would look like, or if the concept could work, but he suggested it anyhow.
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These events, from the Arab Spring to Wikileaks to U.K. Riots, were all fundamentally shaped by the use of social media, and in many cases would have never happened without social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
