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A Focus on Twitter in Iran

By Mark Evans | Published: June 21, 2009
Sysomos – a client – has looked at Twitter activity in Iran given Twitter has become an important communications tool amid the political discord following the recent presidential elections. Among the findings are that nearly 20,000 Iranians are using Twitter compared with about 9,000 in mid-May. Of the people on Twitter, 10% of total users signed [...]
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Has Iran Changed Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 20, 2009
As the protests over the controversial presidential elections in Iran continue to maintain their traction, a question attracting more attention is whether Twitter has changed this week after the U.S. State Department asked it to postpone schedule maintenance to keep lines of communications open. If Twitter is now deemed to be an essential communications medium, will [...]
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