clipped from: industry.bnet.com Yesterday may have been a slow news day in the U.S. but in Tehran and other major Iranian cities there was major rioting in response to the government’s announcement that reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had lost the Presidential election by a landslide to incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
For whatever reason, mainstream U.S. news media gave the street insurrection against the Iranian etablishment only cursory coverage. Not to worry: Into the void, Twitter, the breaking news channel of choice, rode to the rescue of those wishing to follow developments in real-time.
It continues today. The mullahs who control Iran may have blocked all cellphone calls, Internet access, and media coverage, but they can’t block Twitter. I’ve got six window open on my laptop as I key in these words, and they are all updating so rapidly that I could not possibly keep up with the action.