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special coverage by Global voices of the Iranian election

Wall Street Journal's take on the #cnnfail event.

"When thousands of Iranian citizens flooded the streets to protest the controversial results of last Friday's presidential election, news viewers in the U.S. rushed to Twitter to protest what they saw as a lack of coverage of Iran on CNN."

2004 article on how Dean used the Internet in the 2004 POTUS election.

Great series on of blog posts on the use of social media in the 2010 elections. I used these as assignments in my social media class. See the post on the Tea Party in particular.

"To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times -an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran-when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers-but for how much longer?"

"Iranians are blogging, posting to Facebook and, most visibly, coordinating their protests on Twitter, the messaging service. Their activity has increased, not decreased, since the presidential elections on Friday and ensuing attempts by the government to restrict or censor their online communications."

A good how-to on doing specific kinds of quieries in Twitter's search to yield the kind of results stream for a specific topic.

"Using Boolean Searches to Follow Iran Election and More on Twitter."

"Does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology?"

I've overdone this metaphor, but I really do see the panoply of sources we have about Iran as an intelligence service to the masses.

Christian Crumlish describes the themes in his book, "the Power of Many," a 2004 look at social web topics. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the use of the Web and social media in the Dean Campaign of 2004.

A recent analysis of Twitter content found that local governments in Virginia are mainly ignoring the popular microblogging website. The research study showed that only 17% of county, city and town governments had Twitter accounts. Tweets averaged at around one per day, and only five of the accounts had more than 1000 followers.