[liberationtech] Fwd: Twitter and Iran election

[Neema Moraveji]

There's more than just Twitter, too.  People abroad are setting up
their personal computers as proxies to enable Iranians in Iran to use
those computers to circumvent censors.  I have never heard of such a
thing.  I an Iranian-American and am receiving lots of interesting
related emails - it would be great to put together to study how the
masses are appropriating social media.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Yosem Companys<companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
> fyi
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dario Taraborelli <dario.taraborelli at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM
> Subject: Twitter and Iran election
>
> What's happening right now on Twitter (in terms of sheer volume [1]
> and use of real-time communication to fight censorship [2]) has no
> precedent (to my knowledge) in the history of social media.
>
> Does anyone know of a good visualization service (similar to the one
> mapping the US election [3]) to appreciate this?
>
> Dario
>
> [1] http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IranElection
> [2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265462-2.html
> [3] http://projects.flowingdata.com/inauguration/
>
>
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>
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