8 posts and columns on Tehran

Voices

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV

in Voices on December 27, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Shohreh, a 37-year-old Iranian nurse, sat down with her husband and parents one night in September to watch a documentary about Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, scheduled to be shown on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s BBC Persian channel.

Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends

in Social on December 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Although World Cup tweeting caused record high volume and infrastructure demands on Twitter, the most-discussed topic on Twitter this year was actually the Gulf oil spill, said the San Francisco-based company tonight.

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Iran Tweets Engulf Twitter

in News on February 11, 2010 at 3:52 pm PT

As the Iranian regime clamps down on antigovernment protesters on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, many people around the world are using Twitter to exchange information and disseminate updates on the situation on the ground.

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Rise and Flaw of Internet's Election-Fraud Hunters

in News on July 1, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Protesters on the streets of Tehran questioning the recent Iranian presidential election results have gotten support from a new breed of election watchers: Internet-enabled anomaly hounds who say the numbers don’t add up.

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One Iranian’s Internet Experience

in News on June 17, 2009 at 4:49 am PT

Social networking services like Facebook and Twitter have played a remarkable role in breaking the Iranian government’s grip on information, both before and after last Friday’s election. But lately, access to the Internet in Iran has slowed to a crawl, demonstrating considerable technical sophistication on the part of Iranian authorities.

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: The State Department Told It Stay Up (But Not Forever!)

in Media on June 16, 2009 at 2:38 pm PT

Skeptical about the impact of Twitter on the unrest in Tehran? The State Department isn’t: It asked the service to reschedule its planned maintenance/outage so Iranians could use it to communicate in and outside of the country.

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Web Users in Iran Reach Overseas for Proxies

in News on June 15, 2009 at 6:16 pm PT

As voting protests in Iran devolved into violence, and communications remained sporadic, Internet users in the country are calling for proxies they can use to stay online unmonitored. Twitter, a hub of activity since the rallies began, saw its own protests as users begged the microblogging service to postpone a maintenance period that is scheduled tonight.