BBC, 2011.01.14
Unions and traditional political groups have played some role. But it is on the internet that a new generation of activists has been credited with driving the movement forward.
This has happened despite increasingly strict controls by a government that, even before the demonstrations, was regarded as unusually zealous in its online censorship.
A steady flow of protest videos, tweets, and political manifestos has continued to make its way onto the web in a variety of languages: Arabic, the Darija Tunisian dialect, French and English.