15 June 2009

The Revolution Will Be Twittered…

Evening,

One of the most astonishing aspects of the on-going protests that I am seeing and the mainstream press is reporting on is the phenomenal amount of reports that are coming through from Tehran in particular via Twitter.  I have been following the coverage coming from there for the past 72 hours, and although the Iranian Government have been able to block off other social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, however Twitter has escaped this censure…

For the latest news coming out of Tehran and other parts of Iran, click here and here.  Admittedly the situation there is extremely fluid, but it is far, far more accurate than any of the mainstream media would like to admit…

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