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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Internet and Democracy

WASHINGTON - The State Department this week asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran amid the growing crisis over its disputed election, three US officials said.

That's brilliant.  Having spent some time on Twitter I can understand why it's such a powerful tool.  The search function is instantaneous and delivers results for tweets only a few seconds old.  You can get a snap-shot of what people thinking and see what the trends are.  For example many people were dismayed by the BNP winning seats in the European Parliamentary election. 
 
Best of all it's not filtered by the media or the government.  So people power indeed.
 
 

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