Facebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked. Faulty Internet filters reportedly caused the sites to become available — not some newfound progressive streak in Tehran. Western-born social media sites were blocked (and never unblocked) during protests over former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election victory in the summer of 2009. Protesters used social media to organize and, well, that was that.
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Iran Briefly Loses Grip on Social Media
Posted by: David Vranicar September 17, 2013 11:48 AMFacebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked. Faulty Internet filters reportedly caused the sites to become available — not some newfound progressive streak in Tehran. Western-born social media sites were blocked (and never unblocked) during protests over former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election victory in the summer of 2009. Protesters used social media to organize and, well, that was that.