YouTube Offers 90,000 Glimpses Into Ukraine's Turmoil

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YouTube Offers 90,000 Glimpses Into Ukraine's Turmoil
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When it comes to following the evolving political crisis in Ukraine (http://mashable.com/category/ukraine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), social media has acted as a near-instant pipeline of informationTwitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has served up quick hits and standalone images.

But YouTube (http://mashable.com/category/youtube/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) has grown increasingly instrumental to documenting the events. More than 90,000 videos related to the Ukrainian crisis have been uploaded since Feb. 1, representing 82% more videos than were shared to the service over the previous two months, according to data provided by YouTube.

See also: Crimea Votes: The Day in Pictures (http://mashable.com/2014/03/16/crimea-votes-the-day-in-pictures/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


These videos, which include live streams that showed the chaos in the streets, have attained more than 25 million views between them. More than 200,000 people watched Espreso TV (http://www.youtube.com/user/espresotv)'s live stream of protests in Kiev, Ukraine's capital city, on Feb. 18. Meanwhile Hromadske.tv (http://www.youtube.com/user/HromadskeTV), an independent news organization based in Kiev, had more than 165,000 viewers for its live stream on YouTube Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/ukraine-protests-on-youtube/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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