Social media's role in the world moves to new levels when governments like China and Iran block site like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube and SMS services during recent events to curb communications between dissidents and prevent too much information from leaking out.

These pictures below which appeared on Twitter hours before maintstream media covered events in Iran also speak volumes about the role of citizen journalism.



My parents and god-brother have grumbled about my "addiction" to Twitter but today they were bugging me about what was happening in Iran and asking to see pictures of the students protesting against riot police.

I think the number of wonderful links to amazing articles that teach about Pranayama, design, internet trends, thought-leadership in my Twitter favourites' page also points to how much I've gained with Twitter.

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Some of my favourites are:
- KimSherrellRT @iamkhayyam: 35 Awesome User Interface Design Tutorials | http://bit.ly/4jKDL
- TEDchris 'Men are geniuses and idiots' theory - well articulated here http://bit.ly/3sLWq
- GuyKawasakiVia http://trkk.us/?XFw 3 step plan every blogger should know: http://trkk.us/?XFx

Now my only wish is more hours in a day to catch up on reading all the great things shared.