Just take a look at these twitter trends

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4. twitter can also be used for

reporting and organizing. But unless you actually delve into it, you won't understand.

One of the first big events to happen where twitter was very important in both reporting/organizing was the Arab spring.

I get countless articles, have joined rallies and gone to organized events that I found on twitter.
But I guess I'm just an "unreasonable clueless doofus".