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Twitter rises to the occasion in crisis

By Angelo Fernando on June 16th, 2009 In Social Media

We all know that the explosion of Twitter-based tools is taking to us a place that we may never have imagined.

But while I often question the value of too much information, and too much obsession with the tools rather than the outcome, I thought these versions of Twitter are truly amazing.

• Given the events in Iran, someone has devised a way to anonymously post to Twitter, here.
• There’s another one here.
• To circumvent the bans, someone even uploaded screen shots of tweets to Flickr.

In related news -related to the perceived power of Twitter over censorship — the State Department apparently asked the folks at Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown. According to this AP report the request was made “to keep information flowing from inside Iran amid the growing crisis over its disputed election.”

Oddly enough, as this is is being posted, Twitter is down for maintenance! On the Twitter blog, they had this to say:

“our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).”

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