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Twitter's power to dislodge dictators is dramatized in a TV ad promoting French international news channel France 24.
The two-minute ad shows the animated, Gadaffi-like ruler and his underlings attacked by righteously angry birds representing freedom. The scene, of course, is an allegory for the Arab Spring, in which Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media contributed to the ousting of rulers in Egypt and Tunisia, along with civil uprisings in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen -- not to mention a civil war in Libya.