Posted on 06/21/2009 7:00:37 PM PDT by Cicero
Hope they protect privacy.
March 24, 2009: Iran mulls death penalty for offensive blogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq9SkwGxvYY&feature=fvst
Can someone explain twitter to me? I just don’t get it.
How is it different then sending a bulk email to all your friends and family?
How is it different than simply reading a “live” FR thread?
Thanks in advance.
That’s great!
You’d have to ask my kids that. I’m not up to speed yet.
Jeff Head may be able to answer your question.
Think of it as IM on steroids.
It is, isn’t it? Saw a glmpse of it on a video...
I think it’s this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJ48Oe3nRw
Ham Radio during the WWII era comes to mind
Might be of interest.
Yes, absolutely. I hadn’t thought of that, but now I recall many a spy story about that time.
i finally signed up on it the other night. thought it looked lame. then i started finding people to ‘follow’. some were in Iran, others here (like Jeff Head), you can sign up for FR, CNN, most news sites, and then there are people like Karl Rove. you just ‘follow’ them and when they send a message it comes to your home page. i just keep it open all day now and check it off and on to see what is going on all over the place! lol hope that helps a little? it was interesting the last few days/nights reading the tweets out of Iran by the way.
Ping.
I’ve been commenting on other threads that this Iran crisis may give us some idea of what might replace the MSM if it dies.
Then where would we get our news, in order to dissect and discuss it as we do here in FR?
Maybe YouTube. Maybe Twitter. Maybe the internet in general, with individuals providing photos, videos, and eyewitness accounts, and some mechanism that will help sort it all out and bring the best stuff up to the top.
It’s too early to say. But if the MSM wants to commit suicide, then I think alternatives WILL appear to take its place.
Twitter is a free "micro-blogging" service that let's you post short 140 character "tweets" including a message or link. Your tweets are visible to people who have chosen to follow your posts and are generally also searchable by anyone. You can reply to a tweet by writing @Username. It's similar to Facebook status updates except more public. In fact I set up my own tweets to cross-post to Facebook. You are correct that it's basically the same thing people have always done, just very streamlined and trackable. Of couse the simplicity/ease of posting from your cell phone means people can do it practically any time, anywhere. The searchability makes it easy to graph trends and see how a particular event is unfolding in real time. For instance you can find other people who are standing in line for the same movie across the world or hiding under a desk in Tehran. Twitter has really caught on in the media/pr world or basically anybody who has a message they want to get out.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I think it is clear that the present regime in Iran is illegitimate. And this is the regime that Obama wants to work with as a friend. He comes across as a complete idiot.
http://twitter.com/ConNewsutm_source=follow&utm_campaign=twitter20080331162631&utm_medium=email
Also people who want to make it easier to group tweets together will include a “hash tag” in their tweet such as #iranelection. For instance we could start making tweets ending with #FRtweets and move this whole thread to Twitter. Lots of people use it to post inane stuff like “just ate some French fries but it really shines when it comes getting first hand info and feedback on breaking events.
Thanks. I may get my kids to help me sign up and figure it out. Most of them are using Facebook, but Twitter seems to be entering the picture.
Also, Deo gratias, last year I was able to cancel my AOL account, because none of them use AIM any more—the only reason I kept paying the monthly charge as long as I did.
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