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flugennock
11/09/09

In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
The Iranian "revolution"?

Oh, y'mean that National Endowment For Democracy-backed astroturf campaign? The one where some British company shipped in thousands of little portable digital cameras so that we could see all those "viral" videos of what was happening in the streets?

What color was that one, anyway? Green, or something? #iran
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CherriSpryte
11/09/09

@flugennock: The National Endowment for Democracy had very little, if not nothing at all, to do with the revolution in Iran. #iran
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Magister
11/09/09

In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Though the charges have since been dropped, but if an American can be arrested for twittering a "revolution", then our government can't really condemn others for cracking down on those in the field.
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Pope John Peeps II
11/09/09

@Magister: .... and from a certain angle, mountains and molehills are the same shape, and therefore can be directly compared... #iran
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Magister
11/09/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Agreed, but when I first heard of the Madison fellow's arrest, I immediately thought of the shot to our credibility, if we were to condemn other governments for making similar arrests.

It's sort of like when the Bush-era waterboarding story was confirmed. It wasn't even days until comparisons were made to WWII-era convictions for war crimes.

Sure, the charges against Mr. Madison have been dropped, but if we want to be able to encourage social networking as a means to organize, then we can't be arresting people for doing the same thing. #iran
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calwilson37001
11/09/09

In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Interesting. But numbers alone arent the only issue. In terms of organizing, sometimes it is just as important to have the "influencers"-- ie, those people who can round up their friends/family/coworkers etc. -- in touch with each other. If twitter helped these "influencers" gain a sense of momentum and round people up, it served a far-reaching purpose.
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Aatom
11/09/09

@calwilson37001: Right. I'm very confused about the point of this post. A small number of twittering activists helped "foment" the protests that were seen and heard around the world against a despotic regime that could use a lot more of that kind of internal pressure, and that's...bad? Because there aren't a lot of people online in Iran itself? #iran
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magnets
10/19/09

In reply to Shrek 4 Audio Booth Secrets Are the First Casualties of Hollywood's War on Twitter
Does Mike Myers actually have a Twitter and is it too much to hope for him to show Lindsay Lohan what a web 2.0 manic meltdown really looks like before entering contractually-obligated radio silence #twitter
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Aaron Altman
10/16/09

In reply to Why Twitter Scares the Hell Out of Hollywood
You know what doesn't scare the hell out of Hollywood? Convicted child rapists who happen to be film directors. #twitter
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BowlingForDollars
10/16/09

@Aaron Altman: Touche. #twitter
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skt.smth
10/16/09

@Aaron Altman: I bet it's scaring the hell out of The Ghost's producers.
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Trai_Dep
10/17/09

@Aaron Altman: Only because that's usually a perk reserved only for producers. #twitter
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Foster Kamer
10/12/09

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I got all the way down to Aaron Hicklin and commenters being crazy. They should have chalk marks for this kind of thing.
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raincoaster
10/09/09

In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
and according to rumour so did Courtney Love. She probably took one look at Tracy Morgan and said, "Eyethir he goez, R i go"
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narnio
10/08/09

In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
I ALSO get all of my breaking news from the Baker City Herald of Baker County, Oregon.

Commonality, extra comma-y! Belonskeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!
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Airvault
10/08/09

In reply to Cyrus Tweeted Out
This is obviously the work of the black Svengali.
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Swifter
10/05/09

In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
When I was in the Soviet Union in 1988, the only thing you could buy for rubles were tchotchkies from the party store for foreign visitors, so I bought an entire case of porcelain Lenin heads and took them to the rifle range when I got back. True story!
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NorthernLite
10/05/09

In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
His crime again was what?
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BaldwinPeriphetes
10/05/09

In reply to G-20 Tweets Invite Judicial Hammer
Oh God, a picture of Lenin? So old fashioned.

Today's with-it techno-anarchist carries a picture of Cory Doctorow, preferably in a red cape.

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mexiback
09/14/09

In reply to Coastal Elites Can't Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil?
I miss fake Dina Lohan :(
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Perhaps Not
09/11/09

In reply to Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl "Ass-Raped" By Everett True
It's depressing that not even death could protect this poor guy's likeness from crass exploitation. It's like Fred Astaire dancing with the vacuum cleaner times a million.
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DahlELama
09/10/09

In reply to Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl "Ass-Raped" By Everett True
As a die-hard Nirvana fan, I'm glad to know that Krist and Dave are every bit as classy and respectful as I'd hoped and imagined they were. I just wish Courtney hadn't turned out to be as despicable and grotesque as I hoped and imagined she wouldn't be.
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