Iran: academics held

June 25th, 2009

Seventy university professors who met with opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi in Tehran have been arrested. Read more here

Habitat uses Iran election tags to generate Twitter hits

June 24th, 2009

Furniture company Habitats Twitter account used hashtags such as #Iranelection and #Mousavi in order to ensure the company’s messages regarding their products would be seen by a mass audience. Twitter members use hashtags to help them narrow their searches and the use of Twitter has proved an invaluable way of getting information out of the heavily censored country. Read more here