With Iran Protests in Mind, State Department Blocks Twitter's Maintenance Outage

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 15:35 in Psychology & Sociology

So all that importance-of-social-media business you keep hearing about Iran? This should tell you something about the underlying truth, no matter how numbing the barrage from the media can be: When the U.S. State Department heard of Twitter's plans for an hour-long regularly-scheduled maintenance outage that would have denied daytime Twitter service to Iran, they stepped in and "urged" them to reschedule. read more

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