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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.