i believe i can fly

Twitter is currently down for unscheduled maintenance.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/3419190721_198e96739c.jpg?v=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html?_r=2
Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter

"Some days, the trail I leave on Twitter is the best proof I have that I actually exist.” - Karina Longworth.

wait nevermind she's totally boring why would 3077 people follow her?!

http://www.bakertweet.com/

2 hos started following me today but i blocked them

http://twitter.com/doylmagicfinger

i watch some twitter rap videos. they are bad

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-other-half-writes-in-defense-of.html

awesome

http://stencils.ch/images/20090420100059_twitter.jpg

bite this maureen dowd

that's amazing

http://twanalyst.com/

lol

Personality: lonely sociopathic aloof

well

http://twitter.com/princess_andrea/statuses/1615114690

wow
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data

this one makes me laugh

http://twitter.com/newrafael

Anthony Gardiner of Wellington, New Zealand bought an engagement ring for his girlfriend, but she turned him down. He can’t return the ring and doesn’t want to keep it as he considers it bad luck, so he’s staging a treasure hunt!

Anyone keen to pick up the ring, valued at NZ$5,000 ($3,268), will need to be in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, on Saturday to join the hunt, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

Clues to the ring’s whereabouts will start being posted on social networking site Twitter (http:/twitter.com/donoogle_com) at 8 a.m. local time on Saturday (2000 GMT on Friday).

oh man that 'foods i have eaten' log

i found that guy through my reader (he's the one who did the funny jello and popcorn animations i posted elsewhere), and i just discovered he follows jon williams' (wizard is hungry) twitter.

small lolworld.

i always figured that would happen sometime, worlds collide, convergence. nevertheless i'm shocked and sort of amazed now that it has.

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html

http://christopherbaker.net/projects/murmur-study/

tweeter i've been reading re. iran:

@StopAhmadi

pretty interesting to watch the real-time reporting and engagement of twitter users all over the world

it's kind of beautiful

"Please @Twitter and @ev don't take down twitter, for the iranian ppl #iranelection"

#nomaintenance hash worked: they've postponed the outage.

From Twitter Blog:

Down Time Rescheduled
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically because of their impeccable history of reliability and global perspective. Today's decision and actions continue to prove why NTT America is such a powerful partner for Twitter.

can't find any of my iranian friends on twitter today. search says they don't exist. :::(((

oh okay i found my main guy through google. wtf twitter don't fuck with me like that.

little lol from naseemfaqihi, girl in dubai who is connected with iran people and twittering lots of info about the goings-on:

In non-Iran news, Paris Hilton just landed in Dubai. Entire city now instantaneously infested with STDs26 minutes ago from UberTwitter

BBC just went green! http://www.bbc.co.uk/ #iranelection #gr881 minute ago from Seesmic Desktop

(green to represent the opposition. don't know what color it normally is but it's kind of fucking awesome huh?)

okay retraction, i guess. apparently the bbc site changes their color all the time.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Members of Iran's national soccer team wore green arm and wrist bands Wednesday during their World Cup qualifying match against South Korea.

The team does not normally wear green bands.

Many Iranians are viewing the team's bands as a sign of support for Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi, although that has not been confirmed.

Green is the campaign color of Moussavi and has been widely worn by his supporters who have staged massive rallies in Tehran before and after last week's presidential election.

(presumably the soccer team doesn't change their wrist band colors all the time like bbc changes)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00574/3-385_574945a.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8104318.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html?_r=1

http://tr.im/oOIT
today

TIME Magazine:

It's unknown whether the game was watched by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he is known to be a passionate soccer fan who closely follows the fortunes of Iran's national team.

StopAhmadi had abt 5300 followers when i first started reading (saturday); now, wednesday, 11,781.

evidence that state media are shopping rally photos to make them appear larger than they are:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3635554738_a4b212f45f.jpg?v=0

also, some election returns, which even i know are dubious:

Taft, a town in the central province of Yazd, had a turnout of 141%, the site said, quoting an unnamed “political expert”. Kouhrang, in Chahar Mahaal Bakhtiari province, recorded a 132% turnout while Chadegan, in Isfahan province, had 120%.

The following is a short text on the situation in Iran by Ali Alizadeh, researcher at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University in London.

excerpt

...[twitter, facebook,youtube, etc.] have come to play a significant role in sending the messages and images of the movement to the outside world. However, the creative self-organization of the movement is using a manifold of methods and channels, many of them simple and traditional, depending on their availability: shouting ‘death to dictator’ from rooftops, calling landlines, at the end of one rally chanting the time and place of the next one, and by jeopardizing oneself by physically standing on streets and distributing news to every passing car. The appearance of the movement which is being sold by the media to the western gaze – the cyber-fantasy of the western societies which has already labelled our movement a twitter revolution, seems to have completely missed the reality of those bodies which are shot dead, injured or ready to be endangered by non-virtual bullets.

stopahmadi now at 14,253 followers (11,781 on last wednesday)

i love the world more all the time

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/06/imagery-update-for-tehran.html

cheesy like you'd expect it to be, but this cnn segment regarding youtube has some good info

oh dear. the twitter trend spells his name "micheal jackson."

17,000+ tweets in about 3 minutes

twitter fixed the misspelling i think. that was nice of them.

u broke it

no, some boring, irrelevant thing going on in the entertainment world broke it

lol #chrisbrownsbowtie

first time i've heard the song since the thread and omg is it terrible

@occupiedcairo

@riverdryfilm
@monasosh
@ellozy

now following those, and also

@AJEnglish
@alaa

easier than having 6 extra tabs open ;)

@monasosh is a good one, she's been in tahrir, along with her mother and brother (@alaa) (and lots of other people), since i don't know when... yesterday at least. her dad was arrested yesterday, they don't know where he is but believe he's safe.

she's very upbeat, posts crowd pics that give a good sense of how many people are there.

told a funny story about helping a stranger who'd been injured by a thrown rock; he commented on her chin injury/stitches; she confessed she'd fallen down at work the previous day; lols all around.

<3 @monasosh: Seems like ppl don't believe we actually took over the parlimant st,they can't stop offering us food & blankets. Hehe revolution spa

ps for the record: her dad was released several days ago :)

Ghonim Wael Ghonim
Support the Egyptian Economy: Fly Egypt Air #Jan25

RiverDryFilm Omar Robert Hamilton
Egypt shakes off entrenched dictator and Tottenham beat Milan at the San Siro! What else lies around the corner?! #egypt #jan25

this guy set up some lists to follow on-site action

@ThomasMeadia/live-from-bahrain
@ThomasMeadia/inside-yemen
@ThomasMeadia/lybia-eyewitnesses
@ThomasMeadia/newegypt

smart.

bahrain is breaking my heart today

lol naseem!

naseemfaqihi Naseem Faqihi
Hot flashes in the middle of crowded restaurants are great fun, esp when accompanied by comments such as "wow, you look really turned on"

funny tweet

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tell Muammar and his kids, in Libya there are Men (rhymes in Arabic) #Libya *Feb17

trending lol:

yOsTiN BiVeR

<3 this, following UN voting for NFZ over libya

مبروووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووووك

wonder what it says. i imagine something like yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. hope so.

incidentally:

the vote was 10-0 in favor, with 5 abstentions.

resolution 1973.

if you c/p arabic into an ilx page, you have to put the cursor at the left-most end of the line to get to the next line. funny!

this is a good reminder that the tweeters in libya (and elsewhere) are young people with the same concerns as all young people:

mouita Mz
Dear news channels, PLZ stop mentioning Twitter/FB all day. If another member of the old generation in my big family joins Twitter, I'm out!

weird how much tha language of sport sounds like the language of war:

AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Ruthless Pakistan fire into semis: Pakistan bowl out West Indies for just 112 before Hafeez and Akmal knock off ... http://aje.me/dFtbnC

haaa:

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
by ShababLibya
There is a hair in my pasta #ItsAlQaeda !!

twitter. it teaches.

birmania = birmanie = burma

tailandia = thailand

(remember in cologne when we kept seeing maitland and you figured out it meant milan? you smart!)

bzzzz.