Steve GannThe Election That Made Twitter Relevant
June 15th 2009 23:09
During my first month, my suspicions came true, I found very little serious writing and most people just seemed to add you to sell something or pad their follower's list.
That all changed this past weekend with the horrible aftermath of the Iranian elections. For whatever reason tweets from inside Iran were getting out even after all other sources went black. It was amazing to see people jump on board the Iranian pleas for help. The trending topics quickly filled up with Iran related topics like #iranelections #cnnfail, and #mousavi.
While the cable news networks were engaged in production meetings about what they should say about the protests, Twitter was telling the stories of Iranian students under fire in their dorms and showing the world through pictures of the crackdown on civil liberties.
It was akin to the past when HAM radio operators were able to connect the world before Skype and WI-FI, tragic history was being past from Iran to the free world.
Twitter has indeed arrived as an invaluable tool for breaking news and as a forum to help spread freedom to the entire world.
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