![]() ![]() There’s no easy signature for a tweet-in-progress if its shorn of a direct connection to the servers at. The very fact that Twitter itself is half-baked, coupled with its designers’ willingness to let anyone build on top of it to finish baking it (I suppose it helps not to have any apparent business model that relies on drawing people to the actual Twitter Web site), is what makes it so powerful. You can hook up your Facebook status in either direction, so that when you tweet it automatically updates your Facebook status - or the other way around. Anyone using at Twitterfall can tweet from there as well. Thus Twitterfall can provide a waterfall of tweets - all viewable by going there instead of to Twitter. Its open APIs make it trivially easy for any other Web service provider to insert a stream of tweets in or to capture what comes out. More than most, Twitter allows multiple paths in and out for data. It’s an atom designed to be built into other molecules. But Twitter isn’t just any particular Web site. So it’d be trivial for the Iranian government to block access to Twitter as it could to any particular Web site, and it could even block access to some Twitter users’ feeds there while leaving others open, by simply configuring its filters to allow some Twitter urls through while filtering others. Today Iran runs its own home-grown filtering software.) Secure Computing denied selling the software to Iran see Wikipedia’s summary. company Secure Computing’s (since acquired by McAfee) SmartFilter software. All Internet traffic is routed through a server farm that applies the filtering. It’s able to treat its Internet-using public the way a school can filter what its kids see on their PCs. ![]() (An update is in the works.) Iran has been able to impose a finely grained Internet filtering regime, not having to deal with the sheer volume of traffic that, say, China has. Our OpenNet overview of the Internet in Iran dates from 2005, but it’s still largely true. ![]() The NYT has a story out with a roundup of the use of social media during the crisis, while Publius at Obsidian Wings worries that Twitter can be blocked just like any other service. Louis Police department even issued a tweet condoling the death of the cousins.That’s the question Andrew Sullivan asks as part of his blog’s extraordinary coverage of the events now taking place in Iran. The family has, however, said that the two teenagers were playing and called it a 'freak accident'. The police had initially listed this as a murder-suicide where Paris first shot her cousin and then killed herself. The video also shows someone opening the door of the bathroom to see what happened on hearing the gun sounds followed by multiple screams and sounds of commotion.Īlso watch: Scary video: 40 cars, trucks collide on US highway amid snow, fog in Pennsylvania Seconds later a second gunshot can be heard which is believed to have caused Paris' death. A video doing rounds on the social media shows Paris screaming and falling. Louis, Missouri were killed while playing a gun during an Instagram live session on March 25.ġ2-year-old Paris Harvey and 14-year-old Kuaron Harvey were recording an Instagram live video in a bathroom when a gun in Paris' hand went off and hit Kuaron in the head. ![]()
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