Britain's incoming government would be well advised to purge all starry-eyed cyber-utopians - like Gordon Brown's "social media guru" - from its roster of advisers.
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Why Tyrants Like Twitter
In Authoritarian Regimes, Social Media Doesn't Only Help Social Activists
Read more »Web attack 'aimed at one blogger'
Writing on his blog, Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos said: "This raises the astonishing thought that a vendetta against a single user caused Twitter to crumble, forcing us to ask serious questions about the site's fragility."
Read more »The Web vs. the Republic of Iran
Twitter gives Iranians a voice, but the government still controls the Internet.
Read more »Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned
But does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology? Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites were more influential. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cohenweb.html
Read more »Iran: The Revolution Will Bypass Your Filters
The Iranian state is getting desperate, and tries to throttle internet traffic... But every few seconds there is a twitter giving new proxy addresses that can be accessed from inside Iran. Even with net speed down to a crawl, activists keep pushing information through. http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2009/06/17/iran-filters/
Read more »Iran, Twitter and the CNN Fail
Yet while the Twittering classes were bending over backward to find more information and connect to more people in Iran -- going so far as to provide proxy servers for Iranians being blocked from the Internet -- CNN and other cable news outlets were busy running evergreen documentaries and Larry King reruns. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/06/15/iran-twitter-and-cnn-fail
Read more »Apple to buy Twitter for 700mil?
Apple and Twitter are reportedly in serious negotiations over a possible $700 million sale of the social networking site, with the deal set to be announced in June if successful.
Read more »Twittering Game Characters
The social networking trend of "twittering" has reached the fiction spectrum, as videogame characters are being made to take up the pasttime; simply showing the devotion that some people have invested into these figures.
Read more »Students use Twitter to storm presidency in Moldova
Organisers used the social networking site Twitter to rally opposition to a Communist victory in legislative elections.
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