An appraisal of the usefulness – and failures – of Twitter as a news source on events in Iran.
With the almost hysterical outbreak of wannabe participants came disinformation – calls to change your location to Tehran to protect the student Tweeters meant that now anyone could ‘Tweet from Tehran’ – and so more chaff joined the flow of information. That was made worse by a call to remove the ID of anyone you RTed in order to protect them – effectively depriving any information of a source.
If you weren’t in the game early or close to people on the ground, and therefore following the right people, by now you were getting some pretty duff information – and fifteenth hand information, at that.
