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Why we can never rest: a year in the life of TwitterON June 15, our technicians told me to add a note to our website, writes Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter. The note warned users of a planned maintenance session that meant our service would be inaccessible while we carried out an overdue system upgrade. Immediately, we began to see a ...
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What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran?Here are a few of the things that we’ve “learned” the last few days about the Iranian elections and their aftermath: — 3 million people protested Monday in Tehran — the losing candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, was put under house arrest — the president of the election monitoring committee ...
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ABC's Jim Sciutto's Twitter Account 'Hijacked' By Pro Iranian Government MessengersThe World Newser World News' Daily Blog The World Newser is World News' daily blog. Here, you'll find our staff's thoughts on the day's news and the way we build our broadcast. Plus, we'll share reports from our team of correspondents in the field, as well as producers behind-the-scenes. A...
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Mindblowing #IranElection Stats: 221,744 Tweets Per Hour at PeakThe protests in Iran have only grown in size and in magnitude these last few days. Ever since the highly disputed “landslide victory” for incumbent Ahmadinejad and subsequent charges of voter fraud, Iranians have taken up their cameras, mobile phones, and computers to send Twitter updates, ...
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Mindblowing #IranElection Stats: 221,744 Tweets Per Hour at PeakThe protests in Iran have only grown in size and in magnitude these last few days. Ever since the highly disputed “landslide victory” for incumbent Ahmadinejad and subsequent charges of voter fraud, Iranians have taken up their cameras, mobile phones, and computers to send Twitter updates, ...
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NPR: Which Tweets From Iran Are True?Many media organizations, present company included, have turned to social networking sites, including Twitter in the search for first-hand information on what's happening in Iran, especially since Iranian authorities have greatly restricted what foreign journalists there can report on and have ...
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Control Yourself » (Re-)scheduled downtime on Identi.ca Thu 18 Jun 3:30PM EDTAt Control Yourself, we’re all excited to be making our first release of the 0.8.x version of Laconica this week. The release will coincide with our move of identi.ca to the new status.net platform, and will start the private beta period for that microblog-hosting service (see status.net coming ...
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Three Ways to Support the Pro-Democracy Protesters in IranUtne Blogs > Politics POLITICS Three Ways to Support the Pro-Democracy Protesters in Iran 6/16/2009 12:59:16 PM by Jeff Severns Guntzel Tags: Politics , International , Iran , Elections , Protests 1. Provide Cover: If you are Twittering about events in Iran from outside ...
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Tear gas and Twitter: Iranians take their protests online(CNN) -- Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action. The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets. Just give them a computer and an Internet connection and watch what they can do. At ...
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#CNNfail: Twitter Blasts CNN Over Iran Election#CNNfail: Twitter Blasts CNN Over Iran Election Twitter users blasted CNN this weekend for a lack of coverage of the Tehran protests, with Iranian citizens claiming ballot fraud and taking to the streets. Twitter has proven a powerful tool for spreading news of developing events in the ...
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