Recent events have demonstrated the significance and potential of this new type of social media as a communication vector, as an instrument for social analysis, and even as an facilitator of popular dissent. Social media has been touted by CNN and other mainstream media organisations as helping to pull down governments that did not protect the legitimate interests of all its citizens. It is inherently difficult to maintain tight control over each and every communication channel in social media, particularly when run outside your country. Governments that fear losing centralized top-down control of a situation that (they worry) could explode at any time (against the entrenched interests of a few)”]