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When the revolution of the Arab spring started in 2011, social media was announced as one of the vital facilitating tools. The uprising was somehow depended on the success rate of the social media, which inherited the scope and impact of the revolution from various protestors and revolutionaries. Hence it is important to discuss the effectiveness of the situation in the Middle Eastern countries that facilitated the penetration of new social media into different countries. Through this dissertation, the author intends to closely analyse the role played by social media among the people of Egypt during the revolution that started on 25 January 2011. The paper also describes the optimised usage of new social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Blogs in extending the awareness of the uprising to create a political mobilisation in the country. Well-established theories and other sources of communication written and discussed by various scholars have been used as reference for various explanations of the event. The author has used various images and statistics to explain the variations and penetrations of social media in a number of Arab countries including Egypt, which was the real initiator for the Arab Uprising. The western media publicised the Egypt revolution as possessing wide and enormous capabilities to mobilise against the undemocratic government, forcing President Mubarak to step down from power. This stage was contributed to by various means of social media tools, creating a widespread impact on the people of Egypt. Thus this report reflects its projections of the outcome through robust methodology and literature search.
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