GOOD.is
GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Get involved.
  • Home
  • |
  • Columns ▶
    • BoingBoing on GOOD
    • Joe Ippolito on Business
    • Carol Coletta on Cities
    • Alissa Walker on Design
    • Ben Jervey on the Environment
    • Peter Smith on Food
    • Truman National Security Project on Foreign Policy
    • Picture Show
    • Mark Peters on Language
    • Anne Trubek on Literature
    • See All Columns
  • |
  • Video
  • |
  • Infographics
  • |
  • Community
  • |
  • Events
  • Follow GOOD:
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • rss feed
  • Business
  • |
  • Cities
  • |
  • Culture
  • |
  • Design
  • |
  • Education
  • |
  • Environment
  • |
  • Food
  • |
  • Health
  • |
  • Media
  • |
  • People
  • |
  • Politics
  • |
  • Technology
  • |
  • Transportation
  • 2
  • 10

Staturday: Twitter in Iran

  • Posted by: GOOD
  • on June 21, 2009 at 3:28 pm

How and to what extent the use of Twitter has helped foment the latest protests in Iran is a question of much debate. Luckily, Iran has had another revolution in recent years which allows us to compare Twitter’s effects on attempts to oust the country’s government.

Tweet numbers are via Mashable and are approximate.

  • Filed under: Blog : GOOD Blog
  • Categories: Politics
  • Share
  • Discuss
  • Mark it good!
  • Facebook
  •   Twitter
  • Digg
  • Stumble
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
Direct link to this post:
Send as an Email:
Your email address:
Recipient's email address:
Message:

X
DISCUSSION: 10 Comments
    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on June 21, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    ROFLMFAOAHAHHHHAAHABRILLIANCE!

    • Posted by: DanielN
    • on June 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    roflmfaoahahhapretty clever you good magazine you!

    • Posted by: Rob
    • on June 21, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Maybe Im dull, but what are we doing here?

    • Posted by: J.Mann
    • on June 21, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    Twitter: fail. Thus far…

    • Posted by: Jay Jordet
    • on June 21, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    Intereresting very interesting

    • Posted by: Anonymous
    • on June 21, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    Can we be a little more smart about this? Let’s consider just HOW long it took the government to be over thrown in the seventies…the Iranian election just took place less than a month ago. 

    • Posted by: Thora
    • on June 23, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Seriously, what the heck are you trying to infer.  If you did the chart on how many American’s knew wtf Iran WAS (literally, was) in 1979 compare to 2009, the chart would look exactly the opposite.Best,Thora

    • Posted by: Thora
    • on June 23, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Sorry, “graph.”

    • Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
    • on June 23, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    Thora: In 1979, 52 Americans were being held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. It was—not to be glib about it—a huge deal, and it was a key point in the 1980 presidential election. In fact, the hostages were shown on TV being released simultaneously with Reagan’s inauguration (try Mark Bowden’s excellent Guest of the Ayatollah if you want to learn more). You think you’re hearing a lot about Iran now? You have no idea.

    • Posted by: Jon Bell
    • on June 24, 2009 at 2:31 am

    Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life.JBBulk Email Program

Login or Sign up to discuss this article

Related Content

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Twitter Impacts Democracy in Iran

    Buried in some news reports of the recent Iran kerfuffle was this interesting tidbit: ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Find GOOD on Facebook and Twitter

    Twitter. Facebook. Heard of them? They're redefining everything (or at least making it easier to stay in touch ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Bloggers Behind Bars

    Global Voices, defenders of free speech online, have launched a new ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    @GOOD Readers Answer: Should President Obama Write His Own Tweets?

    Today on Twitter we asked our followers (sounds a little cultish, no?) if they thought President Obama should ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : The Community Board

    Recycled Tweets!

    RECYCLE YOUR BORING TWEETS GetTRASHED.org and McKinney have teamed up to save the planet and cyberspace one tweet at a time. Recycle ...
    Read & Discuss

Recent Readers

  • Price
  • Peter Green
  • joeth
  • Fred Lunau
  • Openworld
  • Hipsternation
  • ce_laselva
  • Amanda Buck
  • LvBeLeCk
  • Joanna Hill
  • annalog101
  • Garth Moore
See all

This Week In Blogs

  • Most Discussed
  • Most GOODMarked
  1. How Thanksgiving Got Its Turkey
  2. Is Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover Sexist?
  3. The Culture of the Interrobang
  4. Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity
  5. The GOOD 100: Cowpooling
  6. Sad or Cute: Hermit Crab Makes Home in Broken Bottle
  7. Are You Raising a Furkid?
  8. The Charter for Compassion
  9. Charging Forward with Mission Motor’s Electric Superbike
  10. How Many Books Do You Read Each Year?
  1. The Charter for Compassion
  2. New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
  3. The Culture of the Interrobang
  4. Picture Show: Four Days in Dubai
  5. The GOOD Guide to COP15: The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the Future
  6. The Kids Are All Right
  7. Picture Show: Breach
  8. Charging Forward with Mission Motor’s Electric Superbike
  9. Intermission: Eye-popping 3D Building Projections
  10. Singularity 101: What Is the Singularity?

GOOD Magazine
About
|
Join
|
Sign In

Categories

  • Business
  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Health
  • Media
  • People
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Transportation

Special Features

  • Blogs
  • Events
  • Infographics
  • Look
  • Picture Show
  • Q&A
  • Video

Community

  • Community Board
  • Member directory
  • Join the Community

Social

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Flickr

Magazine

  • Current issue
  • Back issues
  • Subscribe
  • Gift a gift
  • Renew/Service

GOOD

  • What is GOOD?
  • Make GOOD better
© GOOD Worldwide LLC. - all rights reserved
  • Company details
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • RSS
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Powered by Verkata