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A search for #iranelection right now will give you a pretty long list of results, in fact in the time I wrote this about 2000 new tweets have appeared. Twitter seems to be the only way that Iranians can communicate at the moment as the government clamps down on most forms of communication.

Twitter is so important there right now that Biz Stone announced that they are moving the planned maintenance to tomorrow to allow citizens in Iran to communicate with one another. It’s a pretty big step from the social networking site, and also follows on from the #cnnfail hash tag, criticising the broadcasters lack of coverage of the elections.

It’s all pretty exciting stuff and following on from our last post, highlights the power of social networking sites can have in the real world.

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