The "Twitter Revolution"

There has been a lot of talk about the role of Twitter in Iran's elections. People are calling it a powerful display of the reach of social media, and the US State Department appears to feel the same. It asked Twitter to postpone its scheduled outage so that people could keep sending tweets from Iran. The outage was eventually scheduled during Iran's night.

I'm a supporter of social media, but calling it the "twitter revolution" is bit much. I'm sure more people are organizing by word of mouth and SMS inside Iran rather than Twitter. Twitter is probably their avenue to inform the rest of us outside Iran. While you can't rely on individual tweets, you get a good sense of the situation when you look at the tweets in aggregate (here is a compilation of them).