STATE DEPARTMENT AND TWITTER TEAM UP TO KEEP COMMUNICATIONS OPEN IN IRAN

REUTERS: The U.S. State Department contacted the social media company Twitter this past weekend and asked it to delay a scheduled maintenance period to avoid an outage that would have made it unavailable to Iranians in the middle of the day. Twitter has rescheduled the maintenance for later. . . .[READ MORE]

TELEGRAPH (U.K.) : An anonymous official told reporters the State Department asked Twitter to change its plans to keep lines of communication open inside Iran during peak hours. Twitter has become the main means of communications for many Iranians protesting the results of the most recent Presidential election in that country.. . .[READ MORE]

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