Follow up to my previous post on Iran.
People have devised two ways for people caught in the middle of the crisis to anonymously post to Twitter.
- One here.
- And another one here.
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).”
As Andrew Sullivan observed in the Atlantic, The revolution will be Twittered.