No Tweets in Iranian Election

Per Al-Jazeera via Breaking Tweets, thousands of Iranians have filled the streets of Tehran and elsewhere in protest of election results. The situation has deteriorated to “the biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution.” Violence intensified after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on national television the vote was “completely free” and Iran should now celebrate a “great victory.”

Twitterers reported that Facebook, YouTube, Friend Feed, and a host of other social networking sites including Twitter itself had been blocked on Saturday, as well as a number of news sites. It was also reported that cell phone service was down throughout the country and Internet was running abnormally slow. Many Iranians are still managing to tweet through third-party applications.

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