it is a bizarre tweet, yeah. >> reporter: astrobal will keep tracking the tweets online.re are very real. here in tunisia, the online revolution would move into the streets. one young man, literally provided the spark. to protest government corruption, a 26-year-old fruit vendor set himself on fire in a rural town. the images of his burned body were posted online and instantaneously available worldwide through the internet. >> i heard about this the same day and it was on facebook. >> reporter: and the offline battle began. lena ben mahenni, a 27-year-old teaching assistant was one of the food soldiers who would spread the flames. lena, whose father had been imprisoned by the government, was determined to track each beat of the offline revolution online, armed with only a computer and her camera. she drove to the center of the protests in rural tunisia. what finally inspired you to get in the car and drive there? >> the fact that the traditional media wasn't doing their job. they were either hiding reality or telling lies. >> reporter: the reality was shocking. lena said