Updated On: 25 February, 2015 03:14 PM IST | | Agencies
<p>Twitter is playing an important role in helping ordinary citizens and advocacy groups gain greater influence than so-called authority figures who would have dominated policy decisions till a decade ago, a new study reveals</p>

New York: Twitter is playing an important role in helping ordinary citizens and advocacy groups gain greater influence than so-called authority figures who would have dominated policy decisions till a decade ago, a new study reveals.
The researchers based their study on the much debated Common Core State Standards. By democratising the flow of information and offering a rallying point for normally divergent groups, Twitter has played a key role in the crossover.