Report describes Twitter streams breaking Iran news dam
Filed today at 3:47 US/Eastern time, a Brietbart.com describes details of how Twitter streams break Iran news dam. The report begins:
Protestors in Iran on Monday used Twitter for battle cries and to spread word about clashes with police and “hard line supporters” of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Twitter messages, some with links to pictures, streamed from Iran despite reported efforts by authorities there to block news of protests over Ahmadinejad’s claim of having been fairly re-elected.
Pictures of wounded or dead people that senders claim were Iranian protestors ricocheted about Twitter and wound up posted at online photo-sharing websites such as Flickr. . . .