With a new Facebook movie out, documentaries and conferences revolving around Twitter, and recent theories on how 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg will take over the world, I was a little more than pleased when I read Malcolm Gladwell’s recent New Yorker piece, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” on how social media has not and will not revolutionize citizen action. It echoed my discontent with the so-called social activists heralding a new era of political protest during the Iranian elections. A good point to remember (and to apply) to other situations is how hard it is to look from outside a bubble when you’re encapsulated within it yourself. That is, it is difficult to conceive of a tweet not having as much social worth as you think because you are invested in it as a crucial networking tool. In addition to that, we are restricted by our own limitations–language, personal biases, and limits on information dissemination topping the list. How many of us read non-English tweets that disagree with our own political and social views? A well written argument by Gladwell, but like all his writing, imperfect. Gladwell also touched upon the inherent flaws in “networks,” in which