The Twitter Times
I received the following email from a friend yesterday:
Wanted to let you know as much I’ve found twitter useful, this weekend with all that’s gone on in Iran it’s really shined. Still unsure about how you eventually monetize it but clearly an extremely useful and unique value proposition. As much as there is a lot of noise to screen out, Twitter continually pointed to new and interesting data sources that no one else had. The news that flowed out of Twitter was better than the Times, Drudge, CNN, etc.
This is not a unique perspective, of course. As per my post yesterday, Twitter is enabling the type of open, global communication that can start revolutions and topple regimes.
This location-specific Twitter search for tweets coming from within 15 miles of Tehran is all you need to understand the power of the platform. Even Ahmadinejad can’t hide.
The bottoms-up, user-revolution that is the Internet is the best enabler of democracy we have. And as it turns out, Twitter and its community of users may be its most powerful tool.
