Iran’s Revolution Will Be Twittered (and Blogged and YouTubed and…)
By Leah Anthony Libresco, The Huffington Post
16 June 2009
Twit:
(1) twerp: someone who is regarded as contemptible
(2) tease: harass with persistent criticism or carping; aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
I’m guessing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently mostly concerned with the second definition. Since the preliminary results for the Iranian election were announced, a steady stream of updates has been accumulating on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites. (For Andrew Sullivan’s report on feeds to follow, click here).
The tweets are becoming so important to ongoing coverage of Iran, that Twitter has delayedpreviously scheduled maintenance so that the outage will occur in the early morning of Iran’s time zone and will therefore be minimally disruptive.
In addition to providing first hand reports on the violence (especially important now that most foreign journalists have been asked to leave), Iranian bloggers are using Twitter and Facebook to organize giant rallies in the streets of Tehran. One protester has even used Google Maps to track the location of government tanks.
Read more at The Huffington Post