He looks like he is somewhat annoyed and unimpressed, while those around him appear nervous (and rightfully so).
Tag Archives: Twitter
Angry Birds V Dictators
The birds are angry, the dictators are scared, and the world will never be the same. Twitter v Oppression, in a clever marketing campaign from France 24.
Live-blog: Iran – Fallout from 25 Bahman protests continues
2:33AM GMT We have been away from updates for several hours so we will attempt to catch up with this entry. More Videos from 25 Bahman Clashes took place at the Tehran University of Fine Arts at a ceremony held by students there for slain 25 Bahman (February 14) protester, Saneh Jaleh. The clashes were [...]
Egypt Revolution – Day 11 – Day of Departure, Friday of Farewell
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt on February 4, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information is difficult [...]
Iran News Now on front page of New York Times for tweet on Obama’s State of the Union Speech
We would like to thank Cynthia Collins who brought to our attention, via Twitter, that one of our tweets capturing some of the notable parts of Obama’s State of the Union speech was briefly up on the front page of the New York Times website. If you follow this site, or our account on Twitter, [...]
Live-blog: Protests and Unrest in Egypt and Lebanon
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt and Lebanon on January 25, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information [...]
Wired: Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution
Wired.com | September 29, 2010 By Jonah Lehrer Just a quick note on Malcolm Gladwell’s Twitter/Social Change article in The New Yorker: It’s an extremely thought-provoking piece, written with the usual flair. For those who haven’t read it, Gladwell argues that online social networks aren’t suited for “real” social activism, so all the utopian predictions [...]
RFE/RL: Iran Says Facebook And Twitter Are Country’s ‘Hidden Enemies’
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | September 29, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari Iranian state-controlled television has accused Facebook and Twitter of being Iran’s “hidden enemies” and tools used by Western intelligence agencies in order to recruit new members and gather data on individuals. The website Mardomak has posted a video of the report. The [...]
Revisiting what the “Twitter Revolution” really means
In June, 2009, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the victor of a controversial and hotly disputed presidential election. Supporters of reformist challenger to Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, entered the streets in protest–on June 15 millions marched–clad in green, in silence, carrying placards asking simply, “Where is my vote?” Peaceful Iranian protesters were violently repressed [...]
Rooz: The Eyes and Ears of the Green Movement
If in the past year, thousands of Iranians have been imprisoned, wounded, exiled, tortured and more than a hundred people have been killed on the streets, it is all because of the regime’s fear of the Movement’s expansion and its widespread use of violence against the people.
Video: one year ago today, Basij fire live-rounds into the crowds
A year ago today, the bare brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards Iranians was clearly displayed before the world. Through the use of cell-phone cameras, brave Iranians captured the malignancy of their government, and through the use of the Internet and social media sites like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, they distributed the images [...]
Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter
(Mashable.com) | March 11, 2010 Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter. The strict instruction makes it clear that even though news continually breaks on Twitter first — especially in disaster [...]
The Truth About the Average Twitter User
(Mashable.com) | March 10, 2010 A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active. The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how [...]
U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies
(The New York Times) | March 7, 2010 By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday. On Monday, [...]
Report on the Operation of the Iran Cyber Army in Hacking Websites
(Payvand) | February 22, 2010 By Farvartish Rezvaniyeh, www.kaleme.com During the past few months, the activities of Iran’s Cyber Army have been noted by the Iranian and even the international media. The theory that these hacker groups are connected to the Iranian government was strengthened when, after several sites were hacked, they issued warnings to [...]
Why the Green Movement will Prevail
Sadness to me is the happiest time When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. Rumi It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in June when the [...]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader attends military expo, then tweets about it
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Live-blog: Iran – 25 Bahman – February 14, 2011
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Angry Birds V Dictators
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Live-blog: Iran – 1 Esfand – February 20, 2011
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Live-blog: Riots in Vancouver after Hockey Game (June 15, 2011)
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Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)
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Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”
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Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know
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