Social media buzzing after the Iran elections

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	Social media buzzing after the Iran elections

petercasier

6-13-2009 8:12 PM

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social networking, social media, twitter, iran, iran elections, iran violence, crowdsourcing, news

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Iran election violence: crowdsourced reporting at its best.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91bc686c-4cda-4a33-b5d5-3bffa1c04e64/26E43767-AE0E-4841-B756-2BD83ED8B1B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html" href="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theroadtothehorizon.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.theroadtothehorizon.org/img/5E2DD5E9-03AC-4561-8D18-4292B4C524E6" alt="Iran election violence" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html"><DIV>Something is brewing in Iran. And the people are reporting.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html"><DIV>Thousands of angry protesters have clashed with police in several cities in Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential poll. He claims victory over his rival Mir Hossein Mousavi, who called the results a "charade". (<A target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8098896.stm">Full</A>)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2009/06/social-media-buzzing-after-iran.html"><DIV>As violence broke out, the mobile phone network was switched off for hours and Internet connectivity was either interrupted or slow at least. Still, in what seems to become a school example of crowdsourced reporting at its best, individuals got their messages out through different social media channels.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/26E43767-AE0E-4841-B756-2BD83ED8B1B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>