Twitter Revolution

I'll admit it, I'm hooked. I've been following the protests in Chisinau, Moldova all morning via Twitter. Locals sending constant updates marked with the 'hashtag' #pman (for the central square Piata Marii Adunari Nationale) are giving updates and, mostly, links to stories on TV reports from JurnalTV.md of arrests. Some may be alarmist (eg 'proof of communist conspiracy'). It's hard to gauge.

Yesterday 10,000, maybe 15,000, protestors hits the center of the only post-Soviet nation to vote in a communist leader. They were contesting last week's election results, which one outside monitoring group deemed 'adequate' and the Chisinau mayor deemed 'fraudulent.'

As many as 170 locals, some carrying neighbor Romania flags, have been arrested per some reports, while one tweeter told me 'there are many people' in the park, 'but not sure how many.'

Real-time reports, or apparently so.