So much for 24 hour News - Iran erupting and CNN barely noting; MSNBC not at all - bloggers...

Twitter and blog reports aggregated at reddit.com ^ | 6/13/09 | Collaborative authors on reddit.com

[InMemoriam]

If breaking news would favor the right, probably blogs and twitter are your best hope. What you won't see on PMSNBC or CNN:

On twitter: try #iranelection or #iranelections

[Recovering_Democrat]

My way of shouting.

[KevinDavis]

A tipping point in Iran. The next 48 hours loom large, but oppo. leaders absent. Comment at TheMajlis.org http://bit.ly/KRuzd

[KevinDavis]

phones back! At least in our area

[KevinDavis]

Like the man said, “the revolution will not be televised.” Or on CNN for that matter.

[KevinDavis]

Folks, who wants to take over pinging duty I'm going to get some sleep..

Updates can be viewed here: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23iranelection

[Ladysmith]

just receive http://bit.ly/17SDk4 from a friend. can't check it out myself. hope it's not fake. #Iranelection ----- Tranlation from the video: first you hear someone chanting "Death to Dictator" then the boy filming gets a call from a friend and he keeps repeating they just got hit with tear gas in a frantic voice.

[Ladysmith]

http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post_13.html

[Ladysmith]

Police is trying to stop people from gathering around while Intel guys still holding a line in front of the gates #iranelection
28 minutes ago from web

from the looks of it they are waiting to arrest all the students! it’s also explains the vans
20 minutes ago from web

some people are now parking their cars in middle of the street trying to block the vans. #iranelection
18 minutes ago from web

police demanding people to move their cars and start crashing car windows. more people are coming. I will try to get a better view
16 minutes ago from web

Down with the dictator! Mousavi, Karoubi; support us! #iranelection
4 minutes ago from web

tear gas #iranelection
3 minutes ago from web

[cookcounty]

Why is this thread dying when there are multiple twitter reports of killings in Teheran?????????????

[Just mythoughts]

Why is this thread dying when there are multiple twitter reports of killings in Teheran?????????????

BTTT

It is not dead yet. I am following it, but what is posted here is all I know about the situation and so I am attempting to learn what is going on before I make any comments.

[Fred]

What a stupid fest on this twitter link.

[Ladysmith]

my eyes are burning hard to keep them open #iranelection
less than a minute ago from web

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you and BTTT

[usconservative]

My opinion of Twitter just went up a notch big time..

Ditto that, I just created an account for myself and am following the New Iran thread. Click the link, tons of video links to YouTube documenting the protests. VERY INTERESTING.

[cookcounty]

Iranian Twiierer “lotfan” reporting a Teheran police station taken over by protesters.

[cookcounty]

Go twitterfall and click on Iran or Tehran for live twitters coming in. Most are from outside Iran, but every so often an Iranian gets through.

[cookcounty]

Gunshots at the University====twitter reports

[Ladysmith]

http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2009/06/13/iran-erupts-sham-election-ignites-heated-protests-video-photos/

[Ladysmith]

I’m dizzy but ok. some people are getting shelter in the nearby unfinished bank building. police arresting a middle aged man
3 minutes ago from web

[Just mythoughts]

BTTT

[Scotswife]

bookmark.

[Ladysmith]

it’s 9:54 AM -Amirabad street near Pasargad bank and to be honest I don’t have the courage to leave the roof right now #iranelection
1 minute ago from web

[Dallas59]

People on twitter are complaining about CNNFail!

[Scotswife]

Was not interested in twitter one iota until tonight.

Should have gone to bed a long time ago, but got caught up in watching this unfold on twitter.

Amazing.

[Ladysmith]

Scotswife, same here. I was up late last night nightfishing and totally wiped out this morning. I had planned on being in bed by 9:00... After 12:30 am now.

It’s hard to stopping “watching” the events like this when they’re happening.

[calex59]

What you have to remember about twitter is this: It can be anyone on their talking. Might be an Iranian giving straight news, might be some kid in his mom's basement giving out false info. I tend to stick to the pictures in this Iranian mess, they are telling the story better than anything. If you know the people who are twittering then, fine, if you don't it may not be what it sounds like. The pics from Iran are showing a huge protest and much violence. However, it is hard to confirm whether people are actually dying, although I suspect some are in crowds that size.

CNN and the other state run media should be ashamed of themselves for not covering this.

[Scotswife]

So I’m wondering about the tweets concerning the university.Do any of the pic confirm confrontation w/ the students?

[calex59]

I haven’t seen any pics of the University or the students. I have seen plenty of people rioting in the streets and many with head wounds from the police. OTH, they are fighing back, burning police motorcycles etc. At least one pic showed them attacking a policeman, they had hold of him. Go onto twitter and there are links to both videos and still pictures. Huge crowds early in the day were surging down the streets.

[Ladysmith]

Here’s a video that I think is at the university gates.

[Ladysmith]

The link would be nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUxmr3xQoX4

[Ladysmith]

still no working cellphones here and wireless speed is awful #iranelection
9 minutes ago from web

there is a rumor now in Farsi twitting community about mousavi being seen after 12h of no known location #iranelection
6 minutes ago from web

according to rumor mousavi requested all people to gather near his office at 12:30 pm today.
less than a minute ago from web

[Scotswife]

thanks!

OK - I really really have to go to bed!

[going hot]

CNN and the other state run media should be ashamed of themselves for not covering this.

Wouldn't want to give sheeple ideas. Wouldn't be prudent.

[Ladysmith]

I guess we should all go, after all he is the real president #iranelection
17 minutes ago from web

I’m going inside the building to inform the others, I hope we can get out peacefully with university’s bus, we must be there at 12:30
1 minute ago from web

(...No way in He!! I’d get on that bus...LS)

[calex59]

If I were them I wouldn’t trust rumors. He was under house arrest last I heard and I don’t think the Mullahs are going to let this election get away from them, and I agree, I wouldn’t get on any damn bus!

[Ladysmith]

joshmull

RT! @Change_for_Iran WARNING! Make sure the meeting at Mousavi is real. Could be a police trap. You are one of few sources for #iranelection
half a minute ago from web

[Ladysmith]

You and others are thinking the same thing. My previous post is someone else warning him of a possible trap.

An aside: This whole Tweeter business is looking pretty useful...

[Ladysmith]

Calex59, Not looking good. Looks like a lot of people are trying to warn him/her that it’s a trap.

[calex59]

Yes, it can be useful, although I don’t use it directly myself. I do sneak in to take peeks when something like this comes up though, and as I said the videos and still pics tell a very different story than our state run media does.

[Ladysmith]

We can’t just risk loosing mousavi because it could be a trap! his core support was always us students! #IranElection
less than a minute ago from web

[calex59]

april_itt RT @joshmull: CONFIRMED: Meetings at Vali-Asr and Mousavi’s offices are a police trap #iranelection less than 10 seconds ago from web

[calex59]

I finally signed up:) They are saying it is a trap, the meeting with Mousavi.

[calex59]

Check this video by BBC out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcHT8-ps64w

[Ladysmith]

Incredible, isn’t it? There were reports of a British reporter under arrest, sure hope it wasn’t him. He’s the only one with stones to get the word out.

I’m outta here, off to bed. Take care.

[Sawdring]

LOL

[PapaBear3625]

An aside: This whole Tweeter business is looking pretty useful...

The totalitarians of the world are noticing as well, and are probably hard at work figuring out countermeasures like massive spam attacks or DDOS. Twitter comes into its own as a vehicle for large numbers of people to pass along information about an event.

[Scotswife]

I was catching up on tweets this morning, and now I see some of them are complaining that false tweets are being sent out under their name.

I guess they’ve found their countermeasure.

[PapaBear3625]

latest tweet: “some anti riot forces are speaking in Arabic! apparently imported from Lebanon”

[PapaBear3625]

BBC says election broadcasts disrupted from Iran:

The BBC said Sunday that the satellites it uses to broadcast in Persian were being jammed from Iran, disrupting its reports on the hotly-disputed presidential election.

The corporation said television and radio services had been affected from 1245 GMT Friday onwards by "heavy electronic jamming" which had become "progressively worse".

Satellite technicians had traced the interference to Iran, it said.

[PapaBear3625]

The Atlantic reports: Yes, the president of Iran's own election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid and called for a do-over. That is huge news: when a regime's own electoral monitors beak ranks, what chance does the regime have of persuading anyone in the world or Iran that it has democratic legitimacy