Much has been made of the words and images transmitted via YouTube and Twitter — not least by the State Department, which asked Twitter to delay an upgrade of its system last week to avoid disrupting service in Tehran, the capital.
U.S. Scrambles for Information on Iran - NYTimes.com
I think this statement shows how much more important twitter is than most people assume. It’s not just about people updating meaningless things- it is actually a totally new form of communication
