It's amazing what is happening with the Iranian elections and twitter and organizing. The Iranian government poked a beehive with a short stick when they turned off SMS just before last week's election. But the ramifications are even broader: as one tweet read yesterday, the Iran election is a death blow to the argument that new media will make people less civicly engaged. The amazing thing about twitter, as pointed out by my technologist husband, is that its API makes it harder to block, and activists can conceivably keep popping up alternative ways out to twitter as long as they could spread the word about new portals to it.

Here is an article in the NY Times that describes how it is all working.

PS>> Kudos to the Twitter staff for delaying a scheduled maintenance outage to allow the system to continue to serve as an organizing and information hub around the Iranian Elections.