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Twitter Peeps Unite

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Author: Jauretsi | Posted: June 26th, 2009 | Filed under: Digital | | 5 Comments »

As you have been noticing, Twitter is the best place for up-to-date information on Iran. Many people in the streets have been Twittering from their mobile phones and posting continual updates every second for true “word on the street”…. digital activism in its purest form.

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This blog post goes out to all the people in the States… or abroad for that matter. If you are on Twitter, set your location to “Tehran” and your time zone to GMT +3.30.

Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people found at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians’ access to the internet down.

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Some insightful Iranian Twitter accounts have already been de-activated by the “powers-that-be”. By listing Tehran as your timezone, it will allow for the Iranian journalists (or honest man-on-the-street reporting) to do their thing and continue to inform us without being shut-down.

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Don’t you just love how bloggers have some sort of global group hug going on right now?

Pass it Around…
J


5 Comments on “Twitter Peeps Unite ”

  1. 1 Dino said at 3:12 pm on June 26th, 2009:

    did it, thanks for the info!

  2. 2 Tanuki said at 10:14 pm on June 28th, 2009:

    A legitimate question that a friend of mine raised: Is it more effective to change the timezone or fill in a different location? Or should we do both?

  3. 3 Jauretsi said at 1:04 pm on June 29th, 2009:

    I don’t understand the question…. what do you mean by “fill out diff location?”.. the location in question is Tehran timezone… thx for your inquiry.

  4. 4 Tanuki said at 12:27 am on June 30th, 2009:

    In your Twitter account setting, aside from choosing the timezone you’re in, you also get to fill out a separate “location” field, which I think is what actually shows up on your profile as your location, while your choice of timezone does not affect what’s shown as your location on your profile, since being in the same timezone as one city doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re in that city as well.

    It seems that if the “location” field in the setting is left empty, which means your profile will not say where you are, then your account will not be included in the result of any city-name search.

  5. 5 Jauretsi said at 11:32 am on June 30th, 2009:

    interesting…. so the proper advice is to truly fill out “location field” as well as changing timezones…. thanks for catching that.