First, the TRUTH about TWITTER:
"Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -
1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.
"US gov asked Twitter to stay up for Iran protests On Monday, Twitter delayed a scheduled upgrade so that its micro-blogging service would not be down during daylight hours in Iran, where Tweets have fueled protests against the disputed presidential election. And according to press reports, the delay was requested by the US State Department.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Twitterized Overnight we're being sold on the critical global relevance of these repositories of heretofore useless information about what the Average Joe is doing, thinking, saying, listening to, watching, reading and eating every 5 minutes. Now they'd like us to believe that Twitter and Facebook are fueling a revolution and serving as the vessel for democracy in Iran. Power to the @People.
"Look at this screencap from Twitter. Someone is using multiple twitter accounts to feed the same identical message into twitter over and over and over. These are not individual Iranians; THIS IS A PROPAGANDA OPERATION! Twitter is being hijacked! I NEED YOUR HELP! IF YOU SEE ANY OBVIOUS FRAUD IN THE "REPORTING" FROM IRAN PLEASE SCREENCAP IT AND SEND IT IN. I am looking for things like obvious flooding of the same identical messages using multiple social network accounts, using outdated photos and images from previous protests claimed to represent support for the coup today, etc. Thanks." -- Wake the Flock Up
"Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran. Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.
I KNEW I HATED TWITTER for GOOD REASON!
When the MSM PROMOTES IT -- in fact, if it appears in the MSM at all -- then I AM OPPOSED!!!!
It is THERE for a REASON, folks, and it is NOT because it is the truth or in OUR BEST INTERESTS!!!
Related: The Tweeting Trolls of the U.S. Military
Now the confirmation from the AmeriKan jewsmedia:
"Finding a way around Iranian censorship; Activists utilize Twitter, Web tricks to sidestep blocks" by Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | June 19, 2009
Derek Lowe and his Iranian-born wife were appalled by the violence that came in the wake of Iran’s disputed presidential election, and by the Tehran government’s attempts to censor news of the upheavals. And so they joined the protest, as best they could from their home in Acton. They decided to become members of the legion of Internet activists fighting the Iranian government’s aggressive attempts at post-election censorship. Armed with their computers and Internet access, they are helping Iranian protesters get the words and images out of their country for the world to see.
Lowe, a research fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, has turned his home computer into what is known as a “proxy’’ - a virtual host that substitutes for the home connection of users in Iran, allowing them to bypass the filters employed by Iranian government censors. “This is about all that I can think of to do that could have any concrete effect,’’ Lowe said. “It comes under the category of ‘better than nothing.’ ’’
Well, I think you know what this guy has been up to, and why the Zionist newspaper is so approving.
The crisis, and the response of Internet users around the world, is helping to redefine the way the Internet helps people communicate. Notably, it has highlighted the value of the social networking service Twitter, which has been used by Iranian activists to share their grievances with the world, seemingly at the very moment when Twitter’s value was being questioned.
And a BIG, FAT, STINKING CUI BONO there!!!
In the fight against Iranian censorship, Twitter’s role is only part of the story. The service simply generates brief text messages, which are read by a relatively small number of Internet buffs. By contrast, hundreds of millions have seen the shocking images of riots and assaults captured by Iranians on cellphones and digital cameras. Most have been distributed through popular Internet sites like YouTube, the video hosting site, and photo site Flickr. In theory, the Iranian government can easily block its citizens’ access to such sites. But in practice, it’s not so easy.
Strange how the ZIONIST MSM NEVER NOTICED when it was GAZA THIS PAST JANUARY - or the 9/11 TRUTH over the LAST EIGHT YEARS!!!
In the United States and many other countries, multiple telecom companies handle Internet traffic. In Iran, it all goes through the government-run company DCI, or Data Communication of Iran. DCI can program its Internet routers to block access to particular sites, like YouTube. DCI can also throttle back the total amount of Internet data entering or leaving the country, or it can shut off the Internet altogether.
Yeah, blogs are never locked out, struck down or attacked in AmeriKa! After a while, you know I'm tired of this rubbish!
That happened briefly last Saturday, as the Iranian government announced the landslide reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Arbor Networks Inc., a company in Chelmsford that tracks global Internet activity, said that on June 13, Iran shut down all Internet traffic for about 45 minutes, then resumed service at a much lower level. Arbor Networks chief scientist Craig Labovitz said Iran’s Internet traffic remains at 30 to 40 percent below its normal rate. He thinks it’s because DCI is scrambling to install new filtering systems that will block politically sensitive Web services like YouTube while letting other traffic through.
Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said Iran can’t afford a long-term Internet shutdown. “It would grind commerce to a halt,’’ Zuckerman said, because many Iranian companies rely on the Internet to run their international operations. So DCI must confine itself to censoring unwelcome Internet content.
Meanwhile, skilled activists are bypassing the blockade. Because Twitter messages can be sent from many websites, not just Twitter.com, the Iranian government can’t find and block every possible Twitter source.
So the BLOGS I LINKED ABOVE are in fact TELLING the TRUTH while you are getting a PROPAGANDA PROMOTION PIECE from the MSM, America!!!!
Other Web traffic can sneak through proxy services located outside Iran, such as the one set up by the Lowes. An Iranian user goes to a proxy site in, say, Boston, and types the address of the site he really wants to visit - YouTube, for example. Because Iranian censors aren’t blocking the Boston proxy site, citizens can use it to reach websites they can’t directly access.
Of course, proxies can have short lives. The censors are constantly identifying and blocking them. Activists respond by assigning new Internet addresses to existing proxies, and by setting up as many new proxy computers as possible.
Vertex researcher Lowe visited a proxy recruitment website. He installed the necessary software and instructions on Wednesday, and gave the recruiter the address of his new proxy. Lowe hadn’t gotten any traffic from Iran as of yesterday, but it could take some time to share the address of the proxy with activists inside Iran. Such proxy addresses are not published on Twitter or on public websites; Iranian telecom workers might see the addresses and set their routers to block them. Instead, the proxy activists must provide the addresses directly to trusted people inside Iran, through phone calls, e-mails, or faxes.
That means NEO-CON AGENTS of REGIME CHANGE, folks!
What YOU and I would consider TRAITORS in this country!
Lowe said the election controversy has made him realize that he can help to fight government censorship anywhere in the world, just by running a piece of software on his computer. Once the crisis in Iran is resolved, “I will certainly keep my eyes open for the next situation where this might possibly help,’’ Lowe said.
Yup, an ARMY of TROUBLE-MAKING TWITTER TWEETERS for the Zionist MSM!
No wonder they have been incessantly promoting Twitter s***ter stuff!!!!!
Oh, btw, s*** press: Ahmadinejad won. Get over it
"Twitter has provably been hijacked as a new tool for propaganda, so of course you have to be told this is the place to go to get the "facts" about what is going on in Iran." -- Wake the Flock Up