Posts Tagged ‘Protests’

Iran, Twitter and the Future of Media

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

By now, it seems like everyone is familiar with the fact that while CNN was broadcasting Sarah Palin’s spat with Letterman, something was happening on Twitter last Friday. Over the weekend that followed, Twitter became a key channel of information for what was happening in Iran, as the accusations that the election was stolen grew into massive protests – the largest since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Twitter was used to funnel information in and out of Iran: to organize Denial ...