No one knows if \”Persian Kiwi\” or PK has any connections to New Zealand, however, it has definitely captured the attention of some media in New Zealand.
What it doe though is highlight how Twitter has become a key issue in Iran.
With the Iranian Government stopping the access to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, users have been determined to find ways of accessing these sites via proxies around the world.
Now it looks possibly like those who have succeeded in making it past the censorship gates are now being hunted by the government.
It shows how as time moves on and things progress, the same things happen in more modern ways.
I love this song by the Propellerheads (with the amazing Shirley Bassey) call History Repeating, where the key phrase is:
I\’ve seen it before….and i\’ll see it again
For Twitter, read Pirate Radio, read Rock n Roll.
The message will get out, Twitter is just the current medium.
One key difference is the access and the huge ability to disseminate information widely around the world.
Access because you can post to Twitter via your mobile phone or anywhere with internet access (providing you can circumvent the blocks)
And the ability to disseminate the information via the internet is so huge these days, and the inherent nature of the social networking sites makes this even easier for viral explosions of news and current affairs
