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The impact of social media on Arab spring has been debated since protests began, and will likely be debated for several years to come. Pollack asserts, however, that efforts in Tunisia started in 1998, when Takriz was formed to advocate for free speech and started efforts to move more people online. As late as 2008, just 3,000 Tunisaians were on Facebook; by the start of this year’s riots, that had jumped to 1.97 million, or more than half of the country’s entire population.

Le rôle des réseaux sociaux sur le Printemps arabe se chiffre En analysant les tweets, échanges, blogs et vidéos échangés sur le web pendant cette période, il est possible de valider de manière empirique l'influence des sites collaboratifs sur les bouleversements qui se sont produits.

York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, writes about how the role of Facebook and Twitter in spreading information continues to evolve after the Arab Spring.