At about 3.30pm Iranian time today, an Iranian student calling himself Fair_vote_Iran wrote the following breathless post on his Twitter page. “Basij [the government paramilitary force] is after us. Slept in the streets last night. Internet is down in most of the city.” Moments later he added: “5 killed in the girl’s dorm,” and then, “Asad is dead & I don’t know where is Mohsen, lost him in the crowd yesterday.”He continued to tweet throughout yesterday, a mixture of the horrifying and the absurd – how his friend had called him and was fine, but his father was still out in the crowd; how another friend had been badly injured in the protests, finally got to hospital, but was arrested there; how his final exams were proceeding as if nothing was happening. “According to university’s head, everything is just fine!” he wrote. His constant preoccupation was the accessibility of technology: “It’s getting almost impossible to reach Twitter”; “I can’t contact anyone … cell phones are out again.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/16/twitter-social-networking-iran-opposition
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