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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: HOW TO: Track Iran Election with Twitter and Social Media

  • GetFamous · 5 months ago
    I've been watching a triple feed of this on tweetgrid. Here's the link to mine, but it's easy enough to set up with different hashtags.

    http://is.gd/11StR
  • Diondelazante · 5 months ago
    Iranian Democrat brothers and sisters
    Stand up for your rights
    Start a revolution
    Throw out the Dictarors
    That's how Greece did it and even though thousands of students died We won and Democracy prevailed
    You can do ti to
    Greece is on your side
  • FarshadPix · 5 months ago
    I can't access any news website in Tehran... it's really hard to talk about it, we have nothing to connect each other now. no mobile & sms service, no facebook, no friendfeed & also no twitter.
  • Oleks(andr) Shturmov · 5 months ago
    1. Huffington post has set up a good live blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-d...
    2. Use Opera to auto-refresh live-blogs, and search querries - right click on the page -> select refresh -> choose interval.
  • juzmcmuz · 5 months ago
    Turn your Twitter avatar *green* as a symbol of your support for the Iranian protesters. Please retweet! @juzmcmuz
  • Oleks(andr) Shturmov · 5 months ago
    1. Huffington post has set up a good live blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-d...
    2. Use Opera to auto-refresh live-blogs, and search querries - right click on the page -> select refresh -> choose interval.
  • iTbay · 5 months ago
    as noted in http://mashable.com/2009/06/14/cnnfail/ comment feed, read some of @tehranelection tweets - http://twitter.com/tehranelection Iranians have a voice on twitter until a "Great Wall" comes bearing upon them as noted by FarshadPix ...great resource integration here Ben.
  • David Sanger · 5 months ago
    Twazzup is faster that Twitter search since it has auto-updating every few seconds

    http://www.twazzup.com/search?q=iranelection&l=all

    currently #iranelection tweets are running at about 2500 TPH (tweets per hour)
  • Keith · 5 months ago
    Great post. I'm trying to aggregate most of this content in a Frienfeed Room called IranWatch http://friendfeed.com/iranwatch

    Thanks
    Tsudohnimh
    @tsudo on Twitter
    KnowtheNetwork.com
  • williamtodd · 5 months ago
    Thanks for putting all this vital information in one place. An invaluable service and potentially situation changing. Great job!
  • CORUSH · 5 months ago
    ALL AKHOOND IS SEEM SHIT AND TA AKHOOND VA RUSHAN FEKR KAFAN NASHAVAD IRAN FREE AZAD NASHAVAD. SO NOAKHOOOOND ISLAMICTERROLIST REPULIC KILLER GOVERNMENT OF IRAN
  • Dr. Thomas Ho · 5 months ago
    aggregated #iranelection Twitter feeds & some other sources at http://netvibes.com/iranelection & mobile version at http://winksite.mobi/iran/election
  • Flythecoop · 5 months ago
    Highly recommend this Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IRAN/18297877889 -- with excellent reporting from inside Iran, in both Farsi and English.
  • pourmecoffee · 5 months ago
    Aggregated Sites: http://bit.ly/U11Eh
  • Faramarz Hashemi · 5 months ago
    http://iranelection.posterous.com/

    video/pictures from iran
  • Mohamed ElGohary · 5 months ago
  • mzee26 · 5 months ago
    On twitter, you get in progress action and pics from iranian student that has been updating often. Follow him @Change_for_Iran
  • Diane Saucier · 5 months ago
    I've been following a number of people on Twitter but the most useful has been @LaraABCNews.
  • Andrew Hazlett · 5 months ago
    My friend Mariam Memarsadeghi, an Iranian-American human rights worker [http://www.mariamrights.com], is tweeting her contacts' info and activities at @1luvfreedom
  • Jacob Edenfield · 5 months ago
    Great coverage from Andrew Sullivan: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...

    Tehran Bureau is now down, but that was another good one.
  • Holger Eilhard · 5 months ago
    Here's the guys FF account that took the photos for tehranlive.org: http://friendfeed.com/amirpix
  • tomv · 5 months ago
    for iran scoops check out @2525. writing is dutch but the links are not
  • Sean · 5 months ago
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/15/2...

    Follow me on Twitter - @rossdog83
  • Pat · 5 months ago
  • nofrills · 5 months ago
    BBC has a selection of links - images, twitter, facebook, and blogs:

    Internet brings events in Iran to life
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099579.stm
  • janschwartz · 5 months ago
    Check out images and videos at http://tehranlive.org
  • dlayphoto · 5 months ago
    Use this avatar and show your support for a FREE Iran: http://bit.ly/JfDzc
  • Joanna Pena-Bickley · 5 months ago
    Thanks for the great information. This is much better than CNN, FOX or ABC. http://twurl.nl/pqcfch #IranElection
  • Edwin Khodabakchian · 5 months ago
    +1 to http://iran.twazzup.com definitely one of the best sites to track the development in real-time.
  • Mazuhl · 5 months ago
    Is there any security advice we can give to Iranian Twitter users about how to keep their real idenfity concealed? Changing their real names? Setting up temp/forwarding email addresses, etc.? I can't seem to find anything online.
  • Ushahidi · 5 months ago
    take a look at this website which is specialized on CROWDSOURCING CRISIS INFORMATION online (of course open source). it has been used in conflicts like Kenya or Madagascar as well…

    Welcome to Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, where we are building a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
    http://www.ushahidi.com/
  • Sergej Müller · 5 months ago
    TwittBee is easier that twitter search: http://twittbee.com/IranElection/
  • jan · 5 months ago
  • Craig Bellamy · 5 months ago
    Thanks so very much for your hard work Ben.
  • Alicia · 5 months ago
    We have people sending out reports to us continuously from Iran. It is amazing how strong this uprising has become. I salute the Iranians for their bravery.
  • diane · 5 months ago
    The Internet, TV and other electronic media are changing the world. When oppressed people see via TV or the internet or other media, they see how good life can be and want it for themselves. This is happening all over the world now and, at least in Iran, the educated multitudes have had enough of what they don't want. Thank God for global electronic media.
  • Wayne Wymore · 5 months ago
    Thank you for your effort here! I think this is the type of post that shows what the real power of these social media sites can be for the good! It's educational, informative, timely and helps us to help ourselves find out what's REALLY going on in the world.

    Thank you Ben Parr and mashable!
  • solohits · 5 months ago
    we are witnessing the birth of a new democracy. keep going new Iran ! freedom is not free !sacrifice must be done for the next generation.
  • solohits · 5 months ago
    save history download your own videos!! http://bit.ly/aCGVU
  • clemenz · 5 months ago
    Free iran from the dictators!
  • Diondelazante · 5 months ago
    Iranian Democrats
    Do NOT let anybody take away your freedom and your childrens future
    No religion or God wants their people to suffer
    Stand up for your rights NOW is the time
    Greece and the whole world is on your side
  • GeekIsKool · 5 months ago
    And if you have iPhone you can use Twitter World - Breaking Borders application to read Farsi tweets in English. (Thanks Google).
  • Diondelazante · 5 months ago
    It's amazing how 2-3 idiots that control one countries future are still in power and people have not
    gotten rid of theme yet
    Iranian Democrats you are more in numbers than any army and police
    All Iranians take the streets today
    Greece and the whole worlds is on your side
  • Alicia · 5 months ago
    It is not just 2-3 people in power that these protesters are facing.!!! . It is an entire army of revolutionary guards and the militia who are heavily armed . They are brave to face them, and they are dying out in the streets. These thugs number in millions. I know the politics of Iran. I salute the bravery of Iranian people.
  • Diondelazante · 5 months ago
    It looks that the 'leaders' that control everything they don't give a crap about the people and they pretend they believe in GOD ,meanwhile they're killing their own people and Usa is doing nothing,hm if seen this before when Turkey invated Greece and occupied half of Cyprus by killing inocent people
    Tha't the fuckin NATO
  • thomas · 5 months ago
    Use your green Digg T-Shirts to support the "Free Iran Campaign": http://is.gd/1byX7
  • JoeyB · 5 months ago
    Thanks Ben. This was imformative. The flickr photos are schocking.
  • triphen · 4 months ago
    thanks!
  • jerry · 4 months ago
    yea , you say true . i live in iran and i am a developer , i always try to follow the news on internet and share it on tweeter , facebook , youtube , ... . but iran's government filtered all political websites and all websites that contain political comments , i can bypass filter but all people who they have a simple knowledge of computer can not access , today the problem is having a simple way to bypass filters that it cannot possible without powerful proxy servers to support over 40 million users online to bypass filter.
    sorry for my terrible english