In accordance with Iran's flag, its World Cup qualifying soccer team, and thousands (millions?) of Iranian residents wearing green in opposition to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supposed fradulent electoral win, Twitter users, too, are going green.
With numerous Iranians sending Twitter updates at the risk of arrest and death, global Twitterati are taking notice, retweeting significant updates, and reacting in solidarity.
As I wrote in my last blog post, Twitter is not mindless. People recognize its capabilities and are using it appropriately.
One could say Twitter is experiencing puberty, as Rob writes:
Twitter users around the world became intimately aware of a complex political situation about an incredibly important place, from the perspective of the people within Iran's borders. When the opposition party started to use green, the traditional color of Iran, to represent their cause, Twitter users stepped up, hundreds tinting their avatar pictures with green to indicate their support. When Twitter users realized that retweets containing the ID of the original poster were circulated, it would make it easier for the Iranian government to track them, a clarion call went out to help minimize the impact on those users by not naming them in retweets.
Echoing my brothers and sisters in Twitterville, I adjusted the hue and saturation levels of my picture today, evident from these before and after shots:
For more information on how to use Twitter correctly-and prevent the unnecessary arrest of Iran's population-please follow Cara Ellison's 12-step guide to twittering the Iran revolution.
Who's who in the above mosaic starting at the top, from left to right: Daniel Brenton, Aaron Strout, Thierry de Baillon, John Stack, Micah Sifry, Neal Wiser, Shel Holtz, Jennifer Wilbur, Shel Israel, Paul Canning
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