Support Democracy in Iran on Twitter with a Green Faced Avatar
I will not lie and say that I know everything that is going on with the counting of votes in regards to the election in Iran, but it’s clearly a big issue that has spawned some really interesting ways that people are trying to not only show their support, but show what’s going on way, way over the pond.
So while reporters and professional journalists are being forced to stay inside to avoid being arrested, people are broadcasting the protests on YouTube, showing that the conflict is real and no where near finished. On Twitter, people are changing their avatars to green (which I haven’t done because I personally feel like I need to be more informed before making a statement like that), to support democracy in Iran.
It’s all very powerful stuff. It shows how much the Internet is changing how we become aware of not only silly, worldly things, like fashion, celebrity gossip, and Heidi Montag being in Playboy in September (sorry, just had to drop that in there) and also how we go about getting this information.
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Check out this chart that shows the number of Twitter tweets in the past 30 days that say the word “Iran” in them. News spreads so quickly and snowballs at an unbelievable rate with microblogging and bookmarking and it’s very powerful to see how so many people who might have otherwise not been aware of stories like this are being exposed to it through these mediums.
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I think its ironic to change it to the colour green, when the current repressive government is using Green as a symbolic colour of political Islam, but to be honest I havent much researched the whole issue either