Anyone been following the Iran Protests on Twitter?

[NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE]

I'm not sure the election is rigged so much as people are afraid to vote against the regime in power.
I really doubt anything will come of this, it sounds like a lot of the protesting has already been put down.

How can the people be so afraid to vote against Ahmadinejad, but not afraid to stage one of the largest protests in the past 15 or 20 years? Yea the protesting has been put down, because the security forces are fucking shooting people.
I hope Mousavi's plan of mass market flooding and strikes pulls off and something happens. 4 more years of Ahmadinejad means 4 more years of his non-sensical lying and tense relations with everyone else.

[NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE]

twitter seriously. does anyone in Iran even have twitter

I think everyone and their grand parents have Twitter in Iran now...

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twitter seriously. does anyone in Iran even have twitter
Its one of the only methods people can use that isnt being blocked by the government.
There are so many ways to use twitter out there that the gov is having a really hard time blocking it. When Nokia Seimens built that custom network they made all traffic go through a sniffer before going out to the world. The gov hadnt used the technology to actually block or alter the traffic prior to the election, but after is when the gov decided to use this technology to edit posts, block sites nationwide and create disinformation to not let the world see how bad it was getting in there. Nokia/Seimens really isnt to blame, they just fulfilled the order from the iran government to build a network.
But twitter has allowed the people to be able to get their voices out there. Its the only method of communication. but twitter is not flawless, there are still gov people on twitter trying to spread bad information. One such way is that if you see anyone looking to make a large DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack, its likely people from the Gov trying to slow internet speed to a crawl so that people cannot get information out as fast.
But as long as the protesters realise what is good info and what is bad, then they can actually stage protests in mass form and let the outside world know whats happening.
Unfortunately, from the sounds of it, the Sea of Green was basically a Sea of Red as the government was basically shooting a large number of people, the Basiij Militia was hacking people with axes and beating people. It was very hard to read some of the posts on Persiankiwi's Twitter. Whom i fear is either dead or captured as the last update was 8:30 on June 24th. Just after tweeting about how the Sea of Green is going and that people are dying in masses.
-Tom