The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.
- Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.
- Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.
- Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.
- Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.
- Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind.
- Denial of Service attacks. If you don’t know what you are doing, stay out of this game. Only target those sites the legitimate Iranian bloggers are designating. Be aware that these attacks can have detrimental effects to the network the protesters are relying on. Keep monitoring their traffic to note when you should turn the taps on or off.
- Do spread the (legitimate) word, it works! When the bloggers asked for twitter maintenance to be postponed using the #nomaintenance tag, it had the desired effect. As long as we spread good information, provide moral support to the protesters, and take our lead from the legitimate bloggers, we can make a constructive contribution.
Please remember that this is about the future of the Iranian people, while it might be exciting to get caught up in the flow of participating in a new meme, do not lose sight of what this is really about.
I miss the Shah. He was a better dresser and the chicks were hotter…
yea your rght the shah is dead and the majority does rule :The democratic majority that is being oppressed by the evil murdering mullahs and basij
the shah was an angel compared to the psychopaths bullying their way in Iran
The shahs son is hot, educated and intelligent .maybe we should get him to go to Iran and stabilize the country.He is democratic,insightful and well spoken …..too bad Im taken 🙂
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Really nice piece –Lessons learned the hard way.. I’m writing up some other points, and I’ll link to you.
Thanks so much…
Unfortunately – in this crisis no matter who wins Iran, democracy and freedom loses…
http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-endit-doesnt-even-matter.html
Mousavi and Ahmedinejad are cut from the same radical, Islamist cloth.
thanks for share, its very useful.
thanks for the guide, its very helpful.
A helpful resource for those of us trying to help from the outside: The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in …
brainshavings.com/2009/…/cyberwar-guide-for-iran-electi.html
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