<b>Shekhar Gupta:</b> Of the tweeple, by the tweeple, for the tweeple

Social media can be dangerous if it replaces traditional governance, politics or debate

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen social media show its real powers. It created most significant global headlines as Presidents Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto of the US and Mexico, respectively, confabulated on Twitter and started destroying the most successful trade agreement in human history (Nafta, or the North American Free Trade Agreement). History was made, and unmade, by leaders of the world’s most powerful nation, and its most populous neighbour, in just 280 characters, over the question of who will pay the costs for America’s $15-billion wall.

Closer, check Tamil Nadu, where an entire mass