This is the power of social media.  I am curious to know if anything is going to come of it.  


"On Tuesday, the Invisible Children  organization launched a program it called Kony 2012  to draw attention to the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, and agitate for his arrest.      

By Wednesday, #stopkony   was trending on Twitter. On Thursday, “uganda” (one of the bases of operation for the LRA) and “invisible children kony 2012” were trending on Google at no. 5 and no. 11 respectively. At last glance, its video on YouTube  has been viewed more than 55 million times.

The effectiveness of this campaign to make Kony famous – and to pressure US politicians to commit to helping stop Kony's two-and-a-half decades of violence – is because of the way that Invisible Children took full possible advantage of current social media tools."

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2012/0309/How-Kony-2012-campaign-went-viral-and-focused-rare-attention-on-Africa