Thus far, the general sense of the news coming from Iran via Twitter has proven to be accurate. For example, hours ago I read on Twitter about the huge numbers defying the rally ban and showing up to support Mousavi, who spoke. Now, finally, CNN reports the same. The Huffington Post seems to be doing the best job of reporting, with links to the Twitter and blog activity as well as analyses in a more traditional vein. But surely, the scrolling present-tense tweets present a dramatic new way to get citizen-news, and the "batting average" of this kind of reporting appears to be better than I suspected it might be. So much is changing.
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