{"id":5633,"date":"2009-06-17T17:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/whats-happening-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:23:47","slug":"whats-happening-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/whats-happening-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening in Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2009\/tc20090617_803990.htm\">BusinessWeek<\/a> isn&#8217;t buying the story that Twitter is the essential organizing tool for the protests in Iran over suspicious election results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think the idea of a Twitter revolution is very suspect,&#8221; says Gaurav Mishra, co-founder of 20:20 WebTech, a company that analyzes the effects of social media. &#8220;The amount of people who use these tools in Iran is very small and could not support protests that size.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their assessment is that people are organizing the old-fashioned way, by word-of-mouth and SMS. Ancient technology, that SMS. But it is a great story, either way.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek isn&#8217;t buying the story that Twitter is the essential organizing tool for the protests in Iran over suspicious election results: &#8220;I think the idea of a Twitter revolution is very suspect,&#8221; says Gaurav Mishra, co-founder of 20:20 WebTech, a company that analyzes the effects of social media. &#8220;The amount of people who use these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/whats-happening-in-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s happening in Iran?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-wireless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1sR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}