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Iran slows Internet access before student protests

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Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of communication.

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Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned

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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

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