... one tweet at a time. Apparently Twitter is playing a key role in how information is coming out of Iran in the aftermath of the disputed election, so much so that the U.S. State Department has asked the site to defer a planned maintenance outage that was scheduled for this afternoon. How about that? It's easy to laugh about Twitter and be dismissive about the whole idea, starting with the silly name ("tweeting"? Really?), not to mention the notion of substantive information being squashed into messages no longer than 140 characters, including spaces and punctuation. Twitter gets the last laugh, because it's clearly having an impact far beyond those of you who are mesmerized by my tweets about tomatoes and my web development homework. Just one more way the world, and how we get information about what's going on in it, is changing.
Here's what cnn.com is saying about this.
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