June 19th, 2009
MSNBC Story on Iran’s ‘Twitter Revolution’
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I was recently quoted in an MSNBC story on Iran’s Twitter Revolution –
In fact, there’s a danger in giving too much emphasis to the role played by online media in Iran’s political crisis, said Gaurav Mishra, co-founder of 20:20 Web Tech, a social media research and analytics company.
“Calling what’s happening in Iran a ‘Twitter Revolution’ is not only distracting but also dangerous,” he wrote on his blog, “because it reduces a legitimate broad-based grassroots movement to what’s quickly becoming a cliche.”
