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Twittering in Tehran
Sox:
Eh, whatever. It takes me three seconds to do and costs nothing. I'm in.
Patrick:
Don't those guys think that the Iranian government wouldn't also run a quick IP check? I can't imagine many people in Iran are familiar with using proxies.
Although Darryl is right, it's not exactly gonna hurt me.
onewheelwizzard:
Comment on said Facebook status:
"This is an urban legend. It doesn't create a logjam since american twitter traffic doesn't originate on the Iranian network anyway. On the other hand, supposing the iranian authorities are collecting twitter user names via the front-end, they can't trace those people back to physical locations because Twitter doesn't share IP address data.
In fact... Read More, all this does is mess with other people in the west trying to get information. They might look at a tool like TwitterVision and see a whole bunch of tweets out of iran about standing in line at Starbucks or Kobe Bryant instead of vital news.
Not to be a downer .."
Oh well. It would've been a cool idea.
Ozymandias:
Yeah, I was trying to think really hard how any part of this was possible and figured it was one of those vast useless and poorly thought out gestures the internet is so proud of.
nobo:
i've been following the Iran conflict through fark.com comments section, and there are some crazy things happening there. Latest tally, as of a few days ago, was several hundred dead, several thousand injured. Injured protesters being arrested when they arrive at a hospital seeking treatment, student dorms raided and students being arrested and killed. At least 5 other cities, other than Tehran, are protesting. Its hard to imagine how people could trust the Iranian government if its still standing after this.
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