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Funny that twitter hasn't been blocked by Iran's government. I wonder if the popularity of twitter's API had any impact on that decision. Because of the API,

Funny that twitter hasn't been blocked by Iran's government. I wonder if the popularity of twitter's API had any impact on that decision. Because of the API, it'd be almost impossible to completely block the service. There's no shortage of 3rd party URLs that display twitter feeds.

far33d 17y ago
It has been blocked, but the users are using proxies..
- sounddust 17y ago
  And in fact, they are using Twitter to keep up to date on what proxies are working at any given time: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=functioning+iran http://search.twitter.com/search?q=functioning+iran
- dinkumthinkum 17y ago
  It's going to be interesting to see what happens in these stone age regimes when a communications technology or Internet advancement (this may be quite a bit down the road) emerges that cannot be easily or really blocked at all.
  - brown9-2 17y ago
    They've learned to block facebook, flicker, friendfeed, and text messaging, haven't they? I'm sure they'll learn to block this too. But by then hopefully technology and people will have moved onto the next new thing...