Iran's Twitter Revolution

From the The Nation blog page, The Notion, author Ari Berman claims that information and communication technology (ICT) is creating access to the most recent news on the June 12 2009 Iranian opposition election protests, available through blogs, YouTube, and Twitter updates from Tehran.

Berman cites reporting done over Twitter by a university student in Tehran who goes by the moniker Tehran Bureau. The Iranian authorities reportedly shut his website down over the weekend, but he was able to send short posts around the world over Twitter. The twitter messaging network has included a list of Iranian bloggers twittering about the clashes between opposition protesters and government forces.

In the United States (US), as reported by Berman, bloggers at such websites as The Atlantic and the Huffington Post "surpassed most traditional news organisations by posting around the clock updates", relying on YouTube footage from inside Iran. Outside the US, news organisations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Britain's Channel 4 have done on-the-spot reporting, "often shooting on their cell phones" amidst the "outpouring of texts, tweets and video from Tehran."