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- - - - even when the phone lines and the internet were shut down, people still came to the protests, because the revolution was not about the internet, but about the needs and the demands of the people. Some people did not have internet connection (Karan, 2012)
- - - - An initial conclusion that can be reached from the above analysis is that there never were Twitter or Facebook revolutions. (Karan, 2012)
        
        After all, revolutions happened before social media, using other communications means that did not characterize the revolutions they facilitated. (Karan, 2012)
      - Although social media are considered indispensable in creating mass movements some think that it is not accurate to regard them as revolutions as reflected in expressions such as “Facebook Revolution” or “Twitter Revolution. (Yucesou, 2019)
      - Both interview partners 1 and 2 rejected the “twitter revolution” or “social media revolu- tion” claims. (Kadviar, 2015)
      - But even if Iran did not undergo a full-fledged Twitter Revolution, Twitter certainly became a highly visible tool for movement activists and organizers—especially in the initial post-election period. (Drissel, 2017)
      - Many people using the phrase “Twitter Revolution” imagined activists running in the streets of Tehran, coordinating demonstrations, and tweeting about their future plans. That never happened. (Gheytanchi, 2017)
      - Indeed many critics of the ‘Twitter revolution’ believe that giving social media credit for starting the Iranian revolution is an injustice to the real sacrifice that protestors made. Aly, 2013