There's actually some debate over how effective this is but I've changed my location and time as well.

If you or anyone you know can set-up proxies, that would really help. I've seen that mentioned on several places as a well to help Iranians since the government is tracking dissenters on Twitter (and elsewhere) by their IPs.

If nothing else, it should help to clog first order searches of Twitter with false positives - and at a time like this, every second counts for those on the ground.

I recommend following the following folks for reliable info:

@jimsciuttoABC
@TehranBureau
@StopAhmadi
@persiankiwi
@austinheap (he has been coordinating proxies for folks)
@ProtesterHelp

I know there are others, but those are the most significant.

You're welcome. :)

On it.

I actually spent a few hours this morning more than a little upset after seeing some of the videos coming out of this.

For all the shit I've thrown at the internet for the trolls it produces, I have to hand it the benefit of making worldwide fuckery something one has to consciously ignore.

At the same time, I'm bloody well haunted by that girl protestor that got shot in the chest. I imagine I won't sleep well tonight.

Thanks for this. I don't know if it will help, but it costs nothing.

Huh...can't find you yet, Greg. Wonder if the account server is still propagating.

I've been on Twitter for a few months now and have already changed my location because why it would help makes sense to me.

Dunno if I'll join or not yet, but tossed it up on Facebook, since I know more than a few people who love that Twitter thing.

I joined Twitter and also put this up on Facebook. Thanks for letting us know - we should all be doing any little thing we can that might help.

I wasn't sold on Twitter for the longest time, even as I finally gave in to try it out - on several accounts for various purposes and such, no less.

But then the Iran Election news hit via Twitter.

That's what I had to revise the importance of networks and tools such as Twitter, which can be co-opted for greater causes than what they were originally meant for.

On that note, you may also want to follow: @IranRiggedElect

(Oh. Heh. It's ajpursell's fault I'm here.)

If nothing else, it's a nice solidarity point (kinda like the green avatars.)

And completely on a separate topic, but thank you again for linking to Nunzio's online writing class. It was an absolute blast and incredibly helpful all around.

Okay, done.
Now what do I do? *headscratch*

Looks like you're taking to Twitter pretty quickly. I hear you about the hesitation to join because no one needs to know what we're all doing, but I joined not to tweet, but to read other people's interesting tweets. And I've made some good friends on here already. It's frightening how quickly things happen on Twitter. It's like LiveJournal on Red Bull.

Anyway, in addition to changing the timezone, it's a great tool for retweeting what people in Iran are tweeting to bring those thoughts to a bigger audience.

Finally, if your heart can take it, look at this search and you can see in real time what's happening. I check it a few times a day, till it gets to be too much. Equal parts inspiration and sadness.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23iranelection

Done and reposted, thanks Greg.

Thanks Mr. Rucka. Finally, a good reason to join Twitter. Just done.

chris beckett

Welcome to twitter - just wait, a few days from now something very cool will happen but instead of turning to the actual human next to you, you're going to pull out your phone.

Thats when you know you're hooked.

And there is no going back.

@artelliott