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19 Jun 09
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Andrew Nachison"The importance of Twitter in organizing protests in the country is likely overstated: BusinessWeek.com reported that there are only about 8,600 Twitter users whose profiles indicate they are from Iran, citing the Toronto-based firm Sysomos."
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18 Jun 09
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Twitter work inside Iran even after other Internet services have been disrupted
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Unlike Facebook, and most other social networking sites, Twitter users don't need to visit Twitter.com to use the service. In the business world, that's a terrible idea. Twitter has no way to promise potential advertisers that its enormous audience will ever see ads placed on the site.
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Instead, Twitter has a completely open architecture that allows users to both send and receive messages on a variety of platforms -- cell phones, Blackberries and, of course, other Web sites. This openness is proving to be particularly effective at avoiding government interference.
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Twitter users theoretically have an infinite number of channels? to view each other's posts and send their own. In fact, you don't even have to be a Twitter member to read along at a site like TwitterFall.com, which continuously streams one 140-character post after another.
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Twitter is not fundamentally different from the proxy server model.
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Alternative sites like TwitterFall.com simply act as a relay. They are harder to shut down, however, because the use of intermediary services is part of every Twitter users' experience. While setting up proxy servers can be a technical hurdle for many Web users, Twitter users do it all the time. If one Twitter service isn't working, switching to another is easy.
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"It's just so easy to capture a Twitter stream."
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Should Iran turn off access to the top 10 Twitter alternatives, users might have some trouble, but he thinks a Twitter shutdown would be difficult it really is just as easy to set up a new Twitter feed as it is to shut one down. "The cycles we're looking at are measured in hours, not days or weeks. There is furious improvisation going on."
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