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Award Ceremonies, Mid-Combat:

 

17:43 we honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers. Baseej have guns we have brains. #Iranelection

 

Twitter affects Iran <-> Iran affects Twitter:

In a modern version of "what came first: chicken or egg?" Twitter today announced that it is changing a long-scheduled downtime for maintenance to a different day and time due to the situation in Iran. The exact language is:

…In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

Later, on June 16, 2009, CNN reported the following:

CNN: Senior officials say the (US) State Department is working with Twitter and other social networking sites to ensure Iranians are able to continue to communicate to each other and the outside world. By necessity, the US is staying hands off of the election drama playing out in Iran, and officials say they are not providing messages to Iranians or “quarterbacking” the disputed election process. But they do want to make sure the technology is able to play its sorely-needed role in the crisis, which is why the State Department is advising social networking sites to make sure their networks stay up and running for Iranians to use them and helping them stay ahead of anyone who would try to shut them down.

 

 

Twitter Takes Action:

Around 23:59 GMT on 6/15/09, the hash tag #DDOSIRAN has completely disappeared from Twitter Search. We assume that Twitter (had to) took steps to remove it and related posts due to these rather egregious nature. To spell it out… to knowingly allow tools that perpetrate a crime to be shared through one’s service might get one in some legal trouble. Again… this is just my guess…

Attacking "Supply Routes":

06/15/09 21:02 GMT Reports are arriving, again via Twitter, that anyone with camera or laptop is attacked in street. Apparently the govt of Iran has started to figure out that without these "weapons" and supplies, the "soldiers" can not communicate. Here is one example of the importance of these tools:

02:08 06/16/09 everybody try to film as much as poss today on mobiles – v\imptnt – these are eyes of world #Iranelection

 

Creation of a Fifth Column – Hiding From the Hunters:

 

Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.

 

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