Iran's Twitter Revolution: Witnessing a new chapter in the quest for freedom

The Washington Times ^ | June 16, 2009 | Editorial

[Abakumov]

Tehran's authoritarian leaders clearly were caught off-guard. They had managed to take down the telephone system opposition supporters used for texting but for some reason were slow to eliminate other social media. As open defiance of the election results broke out, citizen journalists used new media to spread the word. And the whole Web was watching.

[jiggyboy]

Latest Iran twitter stuff via http://www.scoopler.com/search/#%22iranelection%22

universities attacked: latest #IranElection

RT @jadi BIG explosion at Nooshiravani Babol University (North Iran), #IranElection

RT @iran09: NCONF: TR #IranElection: some student killed by the 4a blast in Babol Univ’s dorms; surrounded by Basij forces #GR88

Tweet from Iran says BIG explosion at Nooshiravani Babol University police won’t let people go there and see what happened. #IranElection

AHMADINEJAD is out of the country in Russia! #iran9 #iranelection #Iran9 #Iranelection #Iran

RT From Iran: My dorms are being raided again plain clothes are coming with guns and threats pray please #Iranelection tehran iranians

[jiggyboy]

RT from Iran: bot randomly calls homes and says “we know you were in the protests, do not repeat this.” to frighten people #IranElection

@Suntimes #iranelection Flickr set out of Iran, take some time and check it out tr.im/oCEO #iranians http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets/72157619758530748/

[BuckeyeTexan]

Kudos to Twitter and their web hosting service partner for postponing a scheduled outage tonight. They had planned a critical network upgrade but chose to keep the site up for the Iranian protesters.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Iran is a highly computer-literate society with a large number of bloggers and hackers. The hackers in particular were active in helping keep channels open as the regime blocked them, and they spread the word about functioning proxy portals.

Go figure.

[luvie]

It was cool to watch that...prayers for the revolutionaries.

May they win their country back...and so may we!

[Falconspeed]

Thanks for the excellent link.

[Straight Vermonter]

ErfanH: Breaking News: Abtahi got arrested #iranelection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Ali_Abtahi