Reaction to Gladwell

After reading Malcolm Gladwell's article, "Small Change" I agree with some of the contexts he points out as being important. The tweeter accounts in Iran may have been significant towards creating a support for the community, but I do not believe it was the make or break in response to peoples actions. People would have acted or responded the same with or without tweets.
In the article "From Innovation to Revolution", Clay Shirky brings an excellent point up when he talks about identifying the right subject for the question. "So I would break Gladwell's question of whether social media solved a problem that actually needed solving into two parts: Do social media allow insurgents to adopt new strategies? And have those strategies ever been crucial?" In both questions I would answer yes. The power of the internet is sharing and exchanging knowledge, and some of this knowledge may be strategies for new methods of leadership or lifestyles. By offering the opportunity or option to internet users it allows for websites, servers to attract more traffic. If the website or server is informative and reliable then users can gain valuable strategies that in the correct context are crucial or necessary for success.