Comments on: Could Iran Shut Down Twitter?

By: Twitter Hacked by “Iran Cyber Army?” « VINCENTON POST

Twitter Hacked by “Iran Cyber Army?” « VINCENTON POST — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:17:31 +0000

[...] sites like Twitter or Facebook? This is an interesting question raised in a website called “The Future of the Internet.” Here’s part of the article: “So it’d be trivial for the Iranian government to block [...]

By: Annotated Bibliography: Twitter and the Iranian Election Protests « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:16:32 +0000

[...] Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, 15 June 2009 http://futureoftheinternet.org/could-iran-shut-down-twitter Extract: “The very fact that Twitter itself is half-baked, coupled with its designers’ willingness to let anyone build on top of it to finish baking it (I suppose it helps not to have any apparent business model that relies on drawing people to the actual Twitter Web site), is what makes it so powerful. There’s no easy signature for a tweet-in-progress if its shorn of a direct connection to the servers at twitter.com. And with so many ways to get those tweets there and back without the user needing twitter.com, it’s far more naturally censorship resistant than most other Web sites.” [...]

By: The politicisation of social media « Timi will share…

The politicisation of social media « Timi will share… — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:37 +0000

[...] interactive social media are also means of coordination. A tool like Twitter with its open APIs and ‘half-baked’ development allows users to gather in different virtual networks and share APIs, content and scripts. Accessible [...]

By: Breaking the 140 barrier :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:09:19 +0000

[...] mean it’s (necessarily) revolutionary, just that it’s a building block. Its open APIs allow it to be baked into all sorts of other services, and like other foundational technologies — [...]

By: La democrazia salvata dai gattini. Il web e la protesta in Iran /2.

La democrazia salvata dai gattini. Il web e la protesta in Iran /2. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:50:31 +0000

[...] Could Iran Shut Down Twitter?, di Jonathan Zittrain [...]

By: Iran: Quellen, Informationen, Bilder, Linksammlung | Kreuzberg laesst gruessen

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:58:24 +0000

[...] Warum Iran Twitter nicht einfach blocken kann. [...]

By: Why the PC matters :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

Why the PC matters :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:20:32 +0000

[...] Web sites that aren’t blocked and hoping that they can connect to those that are — the way that Twitterfall can be used to tweet even if twitter.com is blocked, or visiting an anonymizer [...]

By: Experts say … :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

Experts say … :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:57:19 +0000

[...] so people can report filtering as it happens. And I’ve also been thinking a lot about Twitter and its cousins — how much social media is making a difference in what’s [...]

By: Kataweb.it - Blog - SNODI di Federico Badaloni » Blog Archive » Twitter è un atomo

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:15:23 +0000

[...] proposito del fatto che le storie sono molecole e le informazioni sono atomi, Zittrain ha scritto ieri che Twitter “è un atomo disegnato per essere ricostruito all’interno [...]

By: Twitter in Iran « The Squirrels Are Watching

Twitter in Iran « The Squirrels Are Watching — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:08:14 +0000

[...] media, Twitter, TWT, YouTube. Leave a Comment Currently watching various media personalities pick Jonathan Zittrain’s brain regarding Twitter in Iran. While Twitter has definitely had a powerful impact here, I’m [...]