ON FATHER’S DAY in Ireland, several prominent Sunday papers give over entire pages to cover Twitter and its role in Iran. It’s also a subject covered in a Qik flick through the Sunday papers (a 6-minute video clip).
“Rumi is considered the greatest mystic poet of Iran . . . As an Iranian, I am immensely proud and delighted to see that Rumi’s work is being widely recognized in the West at a time when my country’s image is otherwise tarnished.”
Tweets from within Iran are gettting retweeted as much as 300 times, according to a review of retweets of tweets coming out of Iran, according to an analysis done today by Simon Owens.