“ Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. […]
1. Twitter Is a Tool and Thus Difficult to Censor […]
2. Tweets Are Generally Banal, but Watch Out[…]
3. Buyer Beware[…]
4. Watch Your Back[…]
5. Twitter Is Self-Correcting but a Misleading Gauge[…]
6. Twitter Can Be a Potent Tool for Media Criticism[…] „
Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com (via participolis)

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