In the aftermath of the Iranian elections where the incumbent Ahmadinejad putatively won the election which then sparked marches on the streets of Tehran, much of the coverage of the marches has been covered in incredibly compelling updates on Twitter. There has also been much coverage on Facebook. As Monday  progressed more and more tweets were being posted about the situation on the streets there. The authorities in Iran then moved to shut down IP proxies, but interestingly through the medium of twitter open proxies were being ReTweeted for those on the ground to pick up. So we currently have this situation where the authorities are shutting them down and as this happens available ones are being distributed on the twitter network. All of this can be tracked in Twitter search under #Iranelection. Its amazing to watch it in real-time. Some notable tweeters from the ground are are @persiankiwi who was adding about 1000 followers every 30 mins at the time of writing 16.40 GMT Monday.

So long as these proxies stay up twitter is going to be the most important network over the next few days. Although updates are being pushed through facebook, it is times like this that you realise that Twitter is at the moment an unassailable force in the real-time world – the simplicity and vernacular of twitter is its strength – it just gives you the information you want and need without any noise and nonsense. I suggest everyone go and follow @persiankiwi and start searching under the hashtag above – this is where the news about what is really happening is going to come over the next while.

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