In October you couldn't avoid seeing something about the Occupy Wall Street movement. There were more than 12,000 newspaper stories a month about it; Twitter messages were being posted almost every second. By May, fewer than 1,000 newspaper articles about the movement appeared; Twitter traffic had slowed to one every 12 seconds. Today there are few Occupy camps in existence.
The movement seems to be failing. I suspect that it's because there were really no leaders that could be seen by the average Joe nor was there a basic, consistent message. The organization was too democratic to succeed in the 21st century.
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