Governments have fallen, revolutions have begun, lives have been saved and histories have been rewritten because of Twitter. Social media and social networks have — far and away — reached the hopes and expectations of the World Wide Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, who imagined the Web becoming “a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write.”

The importance of social media can not be underestimated. Social media introduced the world to the concept of instant communication. Suddenly, events on the other side of the world can be reported on as they happen.