The Myth of the Iranian Twitter Revolution
Posted by Grant Brewer on 17 Jun 2010
The Myth of the Iranian Twitter Revolution: "Foreign Policy Magazine: ‘But it is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right. Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran. As Mehdi Yahyanejad, the manager of ‘Balatarin,’ one of the Internet’s most popular Farsi-language Web sites, told the Washington Post last June, Twitter’s impact inside Iran is nil. ‘Here [in the United States], there is lots of buzz,’ he said. ‘But once you look, you see most of it are Americans tweeting among themselves.’"
(Via Subtraction.)
That doesn't seem surprising — Twitter as a source of breaking news is over exaggerated. The Twittersphere just seems littered with retweets of the same things appearing on CNN.
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