ABC's The World Newser:
The government is now trying to turn technology against the protesters. Officials have started a number of fake opposition pages on Twitter, which are tweeting propaganda and misleading information. I became an unwitting victim when a user named "persian_guy" retweeted several things under my name which I didn' write
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It's funny how CNN, ABC, and others in the media are using sites like Twitter as an excellent source for credible information. So, they will only use the information from those so called Ahmadinejad hating Iranians and everyone else is just someone from the government "hijacking" lol
"That ‘Tehran’s upper class’ are forcing the protests on average Iranians is a common government line, dismissing the protesters as a bunch of privileged kids."
That sounds starkly reminiscent of the Palin campaign's refrain, "real Americans". Of course, the Republicans have been using this very tactic for decades. It is very simple. If you don't agree with us you're not a real American.
This proves that the blue Twitter bird is fast. Monday, I made an account to look at the Iran uprising tweets (twits? twitters?) and that persian_guy has been spreading rumors for days. As a former Twitter denouncer, its actually worth it just to go there and read the #iranelection topic. The news is coming out of there hours before its printed on the liveblogs. Liveblogs have to try to confirm the info first.
I prefer confirmed information.
Real reporters don't use twitter. They write reports.
"Pro-Iranian?" Sorry but is the opposition group anti-Iranian?
I loathe Twitter. I've never seen Twitter, I've never twittted or been twitted, and I hope I never am. I've never felt so smothered by ads disguised as everything else. To the cornfield with twitter.
an ObamaABC news reporter? Now you will here from Obama that one of his state run media guys has been assaulted
ah poor thing, you never will
Small post size
tweets are childish
just become Madonna posts latest infomation who cares?
The headline should read, "I Allowed Pro-Iranian Messengers to Hijack my Twitter. Twitter is for twits.
Twitter is a pile of crap.
When you got the GOP thinking they're "cool" because they use it...the fad is over.
Like parents liking something when we were teenagers, lol
OMG, really, unthinkable. maybe you should just cry and go home.
Mommy, Iran, hijacked my twitter.
Well said.
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First Posted: 06-18-09 02:25 PM | Updated: 06-18-09 02:38 PM