Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)

Posted on 10/07/2012 by Juan Cole

At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria and Lebanon are all actually quite bright, which fits the statistics we have from that time.

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