Twitter, A New Force In Elections--Web 2.0 Makes History

Twitter received a most unusual call from The State Department this week. Instead of undergoing their scheduled maintenance, Twitter agreed to postpone the maintenance work on its global network until after the Iranian elections protests concluded--due to the fact that the citizens of Iran were using Twitter as a vehicle for dialogue which helped to organize the protests that followed after the election and to inform the outside world of the events following the election. Many have stated that this is an historic milestone for new-media.

NOTE: The State Department noted that they did not contact Twitter until three days after the election and after the protests commenced--they stated that they do not consider this meddling.