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"A common joke in Saudi Arabia these days is that “Twitter is parliament”. There’s much truth in this, as social media are proving to be a powerful modernising force in a country that now has one of the world’s highest internet penetration rates, alongside one of its most traditional and authoritarian political systems.

Probably half of Saudi adults and doubtless nearly the entire youth population have some sort of online presence and, as many of them are quickly discovering, it’s a fresh, open space for sharing ideas above and beyond the government’s best efforts to censor and control. But, as we are becoming painfully aware, it is also a battleground, with extremist propaganda and ideas - most notably from the supporters of the media-savvy Islamic State - fast gaining traction."

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/the-rules-of-twitter-engagement/2016034.article