The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

New America Media by Austin Heap | Jun. 16, 2009 (Opinion)

My website has been attacked by Iran. My servers are melting. But individuals in the opposition are still able to use technology to mobilize each other. And the tech community around the world is still able to support them. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
2.8
 by Derek Hawkins - Jun. 16, 2009

This didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, nor did it do much of a service to the many people using Twitter to coordinate demonstrations in Iran. Mostly adulation, not insight.

The Ayatollah had not read the lessons of Moldova, where protestors used sites like Twitter to organize mass protests in April against the Communist government.

This is simply not true. A number of factors suggest that a “Twitter revolution” during the Moldova protest was completely implausible.

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