Given the widely-acknowledged role of social media in the run-up to the vote in Iran, it’s no surprise that Twitter is now a key tool of protestors. 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, […]
Category: Social Media
Government as Content Creator
Today saw the launch of the latest government blog, Blog@Homeland Security. How many government blogs are there? The government has a website with that information.
Welcome to the New Twitter News Cycle
The Post takes a look at how news travels across Twitter in this Howard Kurtz piece. Twitter’s 17 million monthly visitors — up from just over 1 million a year ago — are shaping their environment, such as making discussions easily searchable by including the hashtag or pound (#) symbol. They create an echo-chamber effect […]