Tag Archives: #iranelection

Nobel Prize for Twitter? Nah – Give it to the Brave Citizen Journalists

July 6, 2009 – 1:33 pm

We’ve written here extensively about the power of new online tools — such as Twitter — to allow individuals and organizations quickly and effectively collect and disseminate content … and how these tools have been used from everything from breaking important global news to empowering citizen journalists in Iran.
Now, the Christian Science Monitor editorial page [...]

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Independence Day: Content and Revolution

July 3, 2009 – 8:02 am

If you’ve read just about any post on this site, you know how much we value the importance of unique, original content — and the tools to effectively produce and disseminate that content.
We’ve written about the recent Iranian elections — and how citizens are using new online tools to effectively collect and share their content [...]

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Tweeting the #iranelection … by the numbers

July 1, 2009 – 6:54 pm

We’ve posted here before (here and here) about the use of Twitter to share information and news about the recent protests over the fraudulent Iranian elections.
Thanks to Mashable, we’ve learned that the Web Ecology Project has published a detailed analysis of The Iranian Election on Twitter — and the findings are pretty remarkable:

From 7 June [...]

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