Suu Kyi and twitter

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/18/the_lady_and_the_tweet

Upon Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the US,
the foreign policy magazine reilluminated social network's impacts on social change.
Given the diminishing political and economic leverage of Western governments for human rights, media does not focus as much as it should on these issues.  Instead, dynamic grassroots inspired, motivated by their online neighbors through social media are standing for human rights.  It's true that some criticize the effects of social media calling 'clicktivism' or 'slacktivism,' however, we are witnessing its power in many cases regardless of the ultimate success in achieving goals(Chinese blind lawyer vs. Russia's Pussy Riot)
It might require more time to judge social media's definitive effects on social changes though, it seems pretty clear social media is playing a role as a stepping stone to make people become more engaged, readily interested in social changes.

BTW,
Will President 'Putin'(not Medvedev as seemingly mistakenly written in the article) ever listen to those critiques?  Is this a matter of national(or one leader's) characteristics or anything else?