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Originally Posted by Cristiano  Several events in the past year have really made Twitter come of age. People knock Twitter as just being a venue to find out when someone has to pee, but it is a very unique form of communication - kind of like having all the IMs in the world be public and searchable. Of course, 99% of what people talk about is mundane and useless, but that 1% is incredible.
The situation in Iran is the perfect example of how up to the moment communication made possible by text messaging to Twitter even when net access is down is changing how we get news about what is really going on. |
Yes. Between that and uploading pics from cellphone cams, people can really get the lowdown when the authorities prevent the usual outlets from these kinds of events.