Twittering Iran
Jun. 14th, 2009 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessThe Internet went down, possibly from massive numbers of users jamming the system. Facebook became unreliable; CNN failed. (Although they apparently scrambled to improve matters today.) But Twitter kept going.
A list of English language twitterers in Iran is here - the list includes some American and British reporters continuing to cover events, as well as university students and angry Iranian protestors and others. You can also follow using the #iranelection tag, but fair warning: actually using this tag drew in a larger than usual group of spammers eager to use this event to sell Britney Spears porn. Sigh.
A list of English language twitterers in Iran is here - the list includes some American and British reporters continuing to cover events, as well as university students and angry Iranian protestors and others. You can also follow using the #iranelection tag, but fair warning: actually using this tag drew in a larger than usual group of spammers eager to use this event to sell Britney Spears porn. Sigh.