Have you changed your Twitter location to Iran?

[FootballFan1012]

Do it, to confuse Ahmadinejad and the ones who rigged their election so the opposition can't be found!

[Mr Winky]

Don't even use Twitter. What's so great about it?

[ramin_911]

Good Idea!

[Debra C]

Yes, I did...in fact it's Tehran...timezone GMT+3.30 hrs The several people I am following have asked that we do this in order for them to remain save...

I have included a post from earlier (when twitter was off line for an hour)

I am following this on the news (BBC) and on twitter. The news stations here, at least in the Chicago land area have little to nothing to say about Iran and the election. MSNBC and CNN are showing more...BBC is mostlikely the best source...Right now, twitter is off line for an hour and my daughter and I are concerned for those that we follow. We are keeping all of those involved in our thoughts and prayers. From here, we feel that we are not able to help with the efforts in Iran but we are praying. My daughter asked for green ribbon. She's almost 20. She is deeply concerned for all involved. Many of the students at the Universities are her age...

I have cut and pasted an article that my daughter came across earlier today...



If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to people just like you in Iran right now.

They are not the enemy. They are a people whose election has been stolen. For the first time in a long time, a voice for change struck the youth of Iran, just as it did for many people in the United States only seven months ago. Hossein Mousavi gained the support of millions of people in Iran as a Presidential candidate. He stands for progressiveness. He supports good relations with the West, and the rest of the world. He is supported with fervor as he challenges the oppressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

On Friday, millions of people waited for hours in line to vote in Iran's Presidential election. Later that night, as votes came in, Mousavi was alerted that he was winning by a two-thirds margin. Then there was a change. Suddenly, it was Ahmadinejad who had 68% of the vote - in areas which have been firmly against his political party, he overwhelmingly won. Within three hours, millions of votes were supposedly counted - the victor was Ahmadinejad. Immediately fraud was suspected - there was no way he could have won by this great a margin with such oppposition. Since then, reports have been coming in of burned ballots, or in some cases numbers being given without any being counted at all. None of this is confirmed, but what happened next seems to do the trick.

The people of Iran took the streets and rooftops. They shout "Death to the dictator" and "Allah o akbar." They join together to protest. Peacefully. The police attack some, but they stay strong. Riots happen, and the shouting continues all night. Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers are thought to have been brought in by Ahmadinejad from Lebanon. Today, 192 of the university's faculty have resigned in protest.

Mousavi requested that the government allow a peaceful rally to occur this morning - the request was denied. Many thought that it would not happen. Nevertheless, first a few thousand people showed up in the streets of Tehran. At this point, it is estimated that 1 to 2 million people were there. Mousavi spoke on the top of a car. The police stood by. For a few hours, everything was peaceful. Right now, the same cannot be said. Reports of injuries, shootings, and killings are flooding the internet. Twitter has been an invaluable source - those in Iran who still know how to access it are updating regularly with picture evidence. People are being brutally beaten. Tonight will be another night without rest for so many in Iran no older than I am. Tonight there is a Green Revolution.

[Hassan in Dubai]

Exactly how does this confuse the Iranian government? They own the network in their country and can tell the difference between traffic originating there and traffic originating elsewhere.

All they have to do is search their routers for connections to the Twitter servers, back track it to the IP address of the user, and they have the right people.

The media hypes this Twitter thing and everyone gets to feel good when they do nothing that actually means anything.

Yea, I know everyone is thinking "but they are using proxy servers to hide their identity". But the facts are that the proxy servers are not working and the ones that are are likely run by the government.

Amazing!