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Tweet from the Mountain Tops
I am totally inspired by the groundbreaking force-to-be-reckoned-with of social media it what is proving to be pivotal in the historic events in Iran this week.
It has catapulted a technology that I was previously entirely cynical about into the realms of the truly revolutionary with average Iranian citizens able to get their personal experiences out to the world despite media blackouts and internet censorship with simple micro-blogging.
Hooray for a media coming of age and finding it’s worth. I am brimming with ideas to incorporate Twitter methodologies into our work!
June 19th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Agreed - I thought that the idea of sympathetic people opening up their computers in the US (in the face of increasing censorship) for Iranians to access and Twitter from was a totally new (and awe inspiring) form of globlization
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Amen. And much agreed that it is fabulous to see social media/mico-blogging cross over from daily mundane, me-centric “Stuck in traffic on 36″ posts to emerge as a more meaningful and uniting tool/political force. Although I am likely just as guilty of the former as any other mildly narcissistic gal…