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...theylooklikethis - to their tweets, so that they can be grouped and searched for by topic; especially interesting or urgent tweets tend to get picked up and retransmitted by other Twitterers, a practice known as retweeting, or just RT. And Twitter is promiscuous by nature: tweets go out over two networks, the Internet and SMS, the network that cell phones use for text messages, and they can be received and read on practically anything with a screen and a network connection. (Read about how Twitter is changing the way we live...
...While Iran has a rich and diverse Internet culture, data traffic into and out of Iran passes through a very small number of channels. It's technically relatively trivial for the state to take control of those choke points and block IP addresses delivering tweets through them. The SMS network is even more centralized and structured than the Internet, and hence even easier to censor...
...State Department doesn't usually take an interest in the maintenance schedules of dotcom start-ups. But over the weekend, officials there reached out to Twitter and asked them to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night. The reason? To protect the interests of Iranians using the service to protest the presidential election that took place on June 12. Twitter moved the upgrade to 2 p.m. P.T. Tuesday afternoon - or 1:30 a.m. Tehran time. (Read "The Iran Election: Twitter's Big Moment...
...Still, in order to shake up the system, a public plan would need to have enough doctors and hospitals participating as part of its network. Many Democrats believe that would only happen if providers were forced to accept patients, most likely as a condition of participating in Medicare - an idea that the AMA and others reject out of hand. Yet, as Blumberg points out, for all the conservative scare stories about government health care, "the people with the most choice are the people who are in the traditional Medicare program ... [with access to] a huge network of providers because...
...worsening since 2007, when Russia raised gas prices and demanded that Belarus give up control of gas transit from Russia to Europe - about 20% of Russian gas exports to Europe go through Belarus, and so Russia wants to take over Beltransgaz, the state-run operator of Belarus' gas-pipeline network. (Read "Russia's Gazprom Diplomacy: Turning Off Europe's Heat...