The key difference in Sidi Bouzid was that locals fought to get news of what was happening out, and succeeded.
"We could protest for two years here, but without videos no one would take any notice of us," Horchani said.
On December 17, he and Ali Bouazizi, a cousin of Mohamed Bouazizi, posted a video of a peaceful protest led by the young man's mother outside the municipality building.
That evening, the video was aired on Al Jazeera's Mubasher channel. Al Jazeera's new media team, which trawls the web looking for video from across the Arab world, had picked up the footage via Facebook.
Tunisian media, in contrast, ignored the growing uprising until Nessma TV broke the silence on December 29.
The revolution needed all support, the social media being the best asset to spread the news
gained mass amounts of revolutionists.
"We could protest for two years here, but without videos no one would take any notice of us," Horchani said.
On December 17, he and Ali Bouazizi, a cousin of Mohamed Bouazizi, posted a video of a peaceful protest led by the young man's mother outside the municipality building.
That evening, the video was aired on Al Jazeera's Mubasher channel. Al Jazeera's new media team, which trawls the web looking for video from across the Arab world, had picked up the footage via Facebook.
Tunisian media, in contrast, ignored the growing uprising until Nessma TV broke the silence on December 29.
The revolution needed all support, the social media being the best asset to spread the news
gained mass amounts of revolutionists.