Twitter Comes of Age

Over the last few days Twitter has rapidly come of age. It is no longer a silly application that you either get or don’t get, it has become the source of choice for information of the situation in Tehran. Iran is a highly computer literate country and hackers and Twitters are posting open proxies as fast as the Government close them and engaging in Cyber War as well providing a constant stream of photos and news and rumours.

By posting lists of Government websites they encouraged the Twitterverse to ope their browsers and leave them on auto-refresh and around the world sped the request and the pan worked!

Twitter had planned maintenance and downtime scheduled and at first were adamant that this could not be delayed but pressure from users has now seen this postponed.

Turning on the BBC, Sky, CNN will get you at the moment for some strange reason a paucity of information on this rapidly changing revolution. Turning on Twitterfall and follwing the #iranelection will flood you with information. Not all of it can of course be trusted! persiankiwi is one group who can be trusted to give accurate news.

More street demos are planned for 5pm Iranian time today and the request is wear black.

If you have an iPhone you can download the Twitterfall app.

At home you can follow it a twitterfall.com.

The Washington Times reports :

The immediacy of the reports was gripping. Well-developed Twitter lists showed a constant stream of situation updates and links to photos and videos, all of which painted a portrait of the developing turmoil. Digital photos and videos proliferated and were picked up and reported in countless external sources safe from the regime's Net crackdown. Eventually the regime started taking down these sources, and the e-dissidents shifted to e-mail. The only way to completely block the flow of Internet information would have been to take the entire country offline, a move the regime apparently has resisted thus far.