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Iran Election protests documented from Twitter

For those trying to help share information to support the people of Iran.

Protest begin immediately after election results.

Iranians use twitter, flickr. youtube and facebook to get the message out. Social media users flock to support protesters. Andrew Sullivan is one of the first to post a blog.

Mousavi posts letter

Rumor circulates Mousavi under house arrest.

US Secretary of State Clinton cites voting irregularities http://tinyurl.com/kpxnpl

Ahmadinejad “denounced foreign diplomatic and journalistic criticism” NYTimes http://tinyurl.com/luy5ru (nobody is surprised.)

Specific websites and networks begin to get blocked. Citizens from around the world begin posting proxy server addresses for protesters to use. This works for awhile.

Protests continue and grow. Twitter runs circles around mainstream news, CNN trends from complaints. BBC only mainstream news for public.

MSNBC steps up to the plate and posted this video http://bit.ly/c6nkD.

CNN finally starts reporting.

Iranian govt gets savvy and starts using communications to find out who is inside Iran. Protesters request users to stop publicly publishing proxy information. A few people decide to help by direct messaging protesters the proxies provided by citizens. After citizens create proxies (Here’s the HowTo), they are to send the proxies to fingertipnews@live.com.

Someone wonders if proxies is the right approach. If the govt owns the ISP - Tor would be the only way to protect IPs. I still don’t know.

Reports of people being called on phones to stop communicating after being tracked down reported on Twitter.

Iran govt apparently hacking to find locations of Iranians messaging out to world via twitter and other websites. People from all over the world on twitter decide to change the location of their own profiles to confuse efforts. Questions arise will this work?

Obama says “The world is watching”.

Tweet from Iran: Mousavi spoke to the people from a cars rooftop & announced his readiness to stand again in another election.

People are also asked to stop Retweeting the username of protesters tweeting. After a few hours of citizens moderating the #IranElection thread, the retweeting of usernames has almost completely stopped.

Supporters of protesters turn their profile pictures to green to show unity.

Random people use the #iranelection stream to have nasty political talks about what Obama should or should not have done. Community slaps hands - “Use another hashtag”. It works.

Twitter suppose to be shut-down for maintenance. Twitter community calls for change of plans, finds out it’s Hosting company. Community bombards hosting company until time and date is changed for early in the morning to not affect Iran as much. Everyone celebrates this and floods #IranElection with tweets.

Also, it’s been recommended to go back and delete tweets calling attention to specific protesters.

Tweet: Many arrested taken to Evin Prison in past 24hrs - evin under heavy protection

One of first and most prolific protesters hasn’t posted in 14 hours. People wonder through tweets if the person is ok.

Found out citizen hackers also working to jam email and communications from official govt. websites.

Rumors that Ahmadinejad has given nationwide Ok to shoot protesters circulates.

RT from Iran:” I’ve learned something today. Americans DO care about the world outside America. Their media just doesn’t.”

Just saw this blog post covering Day 4: http://www.terry.ubc.ca/index.php/2009/06/15/twittering-a-revolution-day-4

RT from Iran: Iranians are writing “where is my vote,” “dictatorial regime” on money and spending it, thus spreading it.

New link quoting Ahmadenijad *IN* Russia http://tinyurl.com/l3fw74

Citizens organize demands: http://emsenn.com/iran.php

Another live blog here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html

Apprently, 7 ppl died in yesterday’s demonstration

(6/16) NYU Professor Clay Shirky says “this this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media.”

Firsthand account http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/06/tehran_dispatch.html

List of Embassies accepting injured people: http://eldercato.com/2009/06/20/list-of-embassies-accepting-injured/

List of Bloggers/Reporters arrested http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/06/21/media_watchdog_23_reporters_arrested_in_iran/?rss_id=Boston.com+—+Latest+news

Photos

Police smash car window http://twitpic.com/7fhqf

Protester helps hurt police officer http://tinyurl.com/lqcvuq

Panoramic photo of masses protesting (6/15) http://twitpic.com/7h3r5/full

One woman in front of police riot squad http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/14/iranian-protest-election-results-2

More mass protesting http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1753/slide_1753_23718_large.jpg

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

Dorms trashed by military http://picasaweb.google.com/iranonfire/KooyeDaneshgahTehranUniComplex#

Protests grow http://twitpic.com/7ki6e