Social media networks are ever growing and the online platform is said to have hundreds of thousands of followers and users every day.
So you can imagine the power and influence it has, in gathering and bringing people together.
This is exactly the case in California, America.
Twitter and Facebook fans took to the Cesar Chavez Plaza, in San Jose the day before Valentine’s Day to host a Pillow fight event.
At midday nearly 100 people took to their Twitter feeds and Facebook postings and joined in a ‘flashmob’ of feathers; a good old-fashioned pillow fight.
Dressed to the nines in tutus, gorilla suits and pyjamas they came by car, bikes and train; some with their pillow tied to their back.
The twitterers and facebookers lined up on the streets and with a blow of a whistle they met in the middle in a fluffy frenzy.
No injuries or arrests were made, although many feathers were pulled out of people’s hair and even eyelashes.
It only lasted about an hour and then the organisers brought out brooms and bin bags to clean up after themselves.
Flashmobs tend to be groups of people organised by internet postings who gather in public places to do surprising, funny things such as perform a dance routine, or freeze and stand still down shop aisles.
The pillows fight marvel used to be performed at Justin Miller Plaza, in San Fransisco, America before city officials considered a crackdown when a pillow fight on a rainy day left thousands of dollars in clean-up costs.
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