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Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 707473
6/20/2009 3:28 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Which Revolution?
by Maximilian Forte (Open Anthropology)

If the headlines had spoken of a “Twitter revolution in Canada,” a North American society with very widespread broadband Internet access, and almost complete Internet penetration, and one of the highest rates of personal computer ownership, one would have still needed to be very skeptical: 74% of Canadians surveyed have never even heard of Twitter, and only 1.45% of Canadians actually use Twitter, most of those being young, professionals, or in universities — as an active Canadian Twitter user, I am part of a minuscule minority (”74% of Canadians unaware of Twitter: online survey,” CBC News, 11 June 2009). The only Twitter revolution there could be in such a context then, is for anyone beyond that minority to actually use it — let alone challenge or transform an entire political system based on its use. That is not just true of Canada either: according to a study done by the Harvard Business School, only 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of Twitter content (”10% of Twitter users generate over 90% of content, study finds,” CBC News, 5 June 2009). A real Twitter revolution would be one that transcends the hype and Twitter self-promotion and sees most users generating the content.

While some, like Clay Shirky, will proclaim regarding this so-called “Twitter revolution in Iran,” that “this is it, this is the big one” (thanks to Anthropology.net) the “it” and the “one” are what are most in doubt. Yet it is doubt that is most absent from the analyses that have been hastily proffered — and when skepticism is absent from analysis, what are we left with? Hype, promotional propaganda, wishful thinking — a rush to the headline-grabbing punchline. Shirky thinks the whole world is watching, and he may be right, but he is wrong about Twitter and other social media.

This is indeed a “revolution”…but it’s for Twitter, this entity whose very existence resembles the classic story of the start up from the last dot com bust of the late 1990s, a “Bubble 2.0″ firm operating in a recession no less, without ever producing a business plan, and yet getting $20 million here and $30 million there in financing (see this, this, this, and that). Twitter may be as irrelevant to Iran as it is good for the promotion of Twitter itself, and for the self-flattery of some ardent Twitter users who believe that their tweets and their green-tinted avatars will change the world, or at least Iran. The revolution will not only be tweeted, it will be fast and easy, and it will be led by Americans themselves, “for Iran”.

As part of my preparation for this article, I not only actively followed and participated in three of the Iranian election streams on Twitter, from 13 June (the day after Iran’s elections) to this morning, 17 June, I also collected a sample of 1,280 tweets, and skimmed all of the tweets about the Iranian election starting from 13 June. Among the statements praising Twitter, and the ways of using Twitter to “show support for the Iranian people”, I have collected these as representative examples:

* RT Huffington Post: “Iran’s Revolution Will Be Twittered (and Blogged and YouTubed and…)”
* The revolution will be tweeted
* WOW, Twitter is awesome!!!
* Yep Twitter Owns! #cnnfail #iranelection
* astounding what twitter has done with #iranelection
* thinks Twitter’s role in the #IranElection could be historical
* thankyou twitter
* We’re getting more news from social media than from traditional media. Social intelligence progress!
* facinating [sic] how twitter brings real time accounts of events
* It is pretty easy being green. Turn Your Twitter Avatar Green To Show Solidarity with People of Iran
* My Twitter photo has gone GREEN in support of the freedom revolution of #IranElection

None of the Twitter users who made those statements are among even the allegedly Iranian Twitter users, and all except for one locate themselves in the U.S., the other in Canada.
Whose Revolution?

Yet, some would have us believe that there is a “Twitter revolution” going on in Iran, when there is no such thing. Not only that, what is being boasted about the power of Twitter is almost entirely false. What there is instead is a rush to the finish line, a predetermined conclusion to immediately thank and praise Twitter in the context of Iran’s street protests.

How representative are Iran’s Twitter revolutionaries? In actual fact, the only allegedly Iranian Twitter users who have been identified by other Twitter users as tweeting about the Iranian protests, are fewer than 45 (see one list here), most of whose locations cannot be confirmed and almost all of whom post only in English. Yet, one can get as many as 2,500 updates in a single minute, on one stream alone (#iranelection), and most of that repetitive and uninformative material is not being posted by anyone except for a huge mass of American Twitter users. In total, only a third of Iranians even have Internet access (we saw in the Canadian case that Internet access does not translate into Twitter use) and, very interestingly, the youth who are most associated with the protests and with Twitter use, consist of 18-to-24-year-olds who in fact comprise “the strongest voting bloc for Ahmadinejad of all age groups” (poll).

The Associated Press has produced a similar analysis, noting that in Iran, “Internet usage is mostly still a phenomenon of the affluent, the youth and city-dwellers — meaning Twitter and other networks are used mostly by the young and liberal — and may overemphasize their numbers while ignoring more-conservative political sentiments among the non-connected.” Those interviewed by AP say that the Twitter hype is creating an illusion that Tehran is witnessing another revolution, or that Twitter even matters for Iranians. (See “Tweeting Iran: Elex news in 140 characters or less,” by Rebecca Santana, Associated Press, 15 June 2009.)

So in this Twitter revolution, Twitter is not representative of Internet users, Internet use is not representative of a wider population, the youth are not representative of the youth, and the Iranians may not even be Iranian. Fantastic indeed, this power of “social media”.
What Are the “Revolutionaries” Saying?

“Where is my vote?” I am not sure where the votes of the disgruntled losers of the Iranian election are, but I doubt that they are in Twitter. Perhaps this view is mistaken, perhaps the way they recast their ballot is through Twitter, and one would think that the pretty young females with makeup and jewelry cast their real ballots when they held up signs in Tehran, in English, for foreign news photographers.

What is even less clear is whether they are saying anything much in Twitter. Some journalists think they see a “new stage in the evolution of social media,” in the form of the “use of Twitter in Iran” (largely mistaking Twitter for Iran with in Iran), and even claim that “information is flooding out of the country — on Twitter” (see “Tweets from Tehran: The use of Twitter in Iran is a new stage in the evolution of social media,” by Ashley Terry, Global NewsJune 15, 2009). The question we should ask ourselves is: what information and what is the nature of this “flood”?

Personally, I have seen very little in the way of actual events being reported, and when they are, they are retweeted (repeated) hundreds of times over for almost an entire day. There is enormous volume, and little content. Hanson Hosein, director of digital media at the University of Washington, wrote “I’m having a hard time filtering through #iranelection, beyond the re-tweets and second-hand information passed around by Twitterers outside the country….We can’t take [tweets] at face value. It can be quite dangerous. We should be doing as much fact-checking as possible” (source). Michael Crowley also wrote, “One thing that really bothers me about these twitters and first-hand accounts posted on blogs is that there’s no way to verify them; I’ve seen several that either seemed suspect or turned out to be false” (source). Similarly, another blogger observed that, “If you, as an average news consumer, relied on Twitter you might believe all sorts of things had happened, which simply hadn’t, running a high risk of being seriously misled about events on the ground. You might at best, have simply been confused. You probably wouldn’t have thought Ahmadinejad enjoys much popular support at all” (source).

One of the most common retweets I read, over a two-day period, was this one, sometimes with minor modifications:

“RT From Iran: CONFIRMED!! Army moving into Tehran against protesters! PLZ RT! URGENT!”

In fact, there was no army “move against” the protesters, not at the time, not before it, not even right after it. Some of the tweets seemed designed to deliberately spread misinformation, such as:

military is rumoured to refusing orders to shoot

and

2 million in the streets

and

@VOA claims 5000 Lebanese Hezbollah Milita h/b brought down to Iran to help control the situation #iranelection [that particular Twitter account, remains entirely blank in actual fact]

and

students being thrown from university building by police

and

IRAN: CONFIRMING 10~15 dead at dorms last night! Floors are covered w/ blood!!! ( [link to twitter.com] location: USA)

and

I have heard here that there may be a national strike in Iran on Tuesday. (said a New York twitter user)

Not only does Twitter allow Americans to engage in participant voyeurism, it allows them to create the “news” about Iran for Iranians themselves, and apparently making it up as they go along. Indeed, anyone can be an Iranian in Twitter, and in fact all are being encouraged to “become” Iranian as in this other vastly over-repeated tweet:

RT help protect Iranian tweeters by changing your timezone to GMT+3:30 and location to Tehran

In addition, having urged all to do as above, there is a further effort to mask the identity of alleged Iranian Twitter users:

When re-tweeting sources from Iran please delete handler name. Type RT SOURCE from Iran #iranelection #gr88 VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Pls RT

The problem as we see is that when everybody is in Iran, nobody is in Iran.
Social Media Are Better Than…?

The last point raises the issue of how are we to value the “information” provided by this “Twitter revolt”. The first problem is to get over short attention spans — this is not the first “Twitter revolt”

-- You can follow Maximilian Forte on Twitter @1D4TW and he blogs at:
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 707473
6/20/2009 3:29 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Not only does Twitter allow Americans to engage in participant voyeurism, it allows them to create the “news” about Iran for Iranians themselves, and apparently making it up as they go along. Indeed, anyone can be an Iranian in Twitter, and in fact all are being encouraged to “become” Iranian as in this other vastly over-repeated tweet:

RT help protect Iranian tweeters by changing your timezone to GMT+3:30 and location to Tehran

In addition, having urged all to do as above, there is a further effort to mask the identity of alleged Iranian Twitter users:

When re-tweeting sources from Iran please delete handler name. Type RT SOURCE from Iran #iranelection #gr88 VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Pls RT
Is45
User ID: 698696
6/20/2009 3:42 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

I went to Twitter grid yesterday
and used key word: Vladimir Putin.

There were a lot of similar posts
with a link - a link to an extremely
obscene photo.

Some perverts using Twitter don't like
Vladimir Putin either.



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Beyond, There Be Dragons
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 680321
6/20/2009 3:44 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

bump
Is45
User ID: 698696
6/20/2009 3:48 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

There are [or were] 25,000 jews in Iran... are they all accounted for ??


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Beyond, There Be Dragons
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 474472
6/20/2009 3:53 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

bump
Is45
User ID: 698696
6/20/2009 3:59 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

There are [or were] 25,000 jews in Iran... are they all accounted for ??


~
 Quoting: Is45



Maybe the election riots are a cover for an Iranian Kristallnacht,



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Beyond, There Be Dragons
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 704437
6/20/2009 4:00 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

nothing is beyond the serpent seed...all out attack on
humanity is in progress by these monster from the
bottomless pit.
muir
User ID: 705851
6/20/2009 4:03 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Torrent List Post

Guardian UK blog timeline (with video and stuff)

Youtube videos being posted by those people trying to tell their stories at great personal risk are being taken down due to objectionable content. Many are preserving their legacy through saving and reuploading them as well as seeding them on bittorrent clients. Youtube's policy is to make an exception given the extraordinary plight of those protesting peacefully in Iran, but due to automation, enforcement is inconsistant and it can take time to rectify the situation.

Compilation torrents for Top Pirate/Persian Bay & Anonymous Iran protester oppression videos, pictures and documents:
[link to thepiratebay.org] (new window)

Top 33 Individual Torrents and compilations from [link to giagro.wordpress.com] (new window)

Now with direct links!

#1 Police Brutality [link to thepiratebay.org]
#2 Student murdered in Isfahan [link to thepiratebay.org]
#3 Injuried people during rally [link to thepiratebay.org]
#4 Police running away from protesters in Esfahan [link to thepiratebay.org]
#5 Basij firing on a crowd of Iranian protesters [link to thepiratebay.org]
#6 Policeman caught and then saved by crowd [link to thepiratebay.org]
#7 Police try and fail to arrest protesters tazahor-konandegan [link to thepiratebay.org]
#8 Girl shot by police in Teheran [link to thepiratebay.org]
#9 Protesters burn police car [link to thepiratebay.org]
#10 Police open fire on crowd [link to thepiratebay.org]
#11 Shooting in front of Police HQ in Teheran [link to thepiratebay.org]
### COMPILATION OF #1-#11 videos [link to thepiratebay.org]
#12 Riot in Iran 13/06/2009 [link to thepiratebay.org]
#13 Burning Bus [link to thepiratebay.org]
#14 Iranian Police Beat Women [link to thepiratebay.org]
#15 Teheran burning during protests [link to thepiratebay.org] #16 Clash between police and crowd Formerly [link to thepiratebay.org] 404'd
#17 My Friends That been Attacked by Special Forces [link to thepiratebay.org]
#18 A person That Basiji's Shot Him From one of Building [link to thepiratebay.org]
### COMPILATION 1 to 18 [link to thepiratebay.org]
#19 Police shooting on crowd (16june not the same above) [link to thepiratebay.org]
#20 Police injuries several protesters [link to thepiratebay.org]
#21 Protesters burn police station [link to thepiratebay.org]
#22 Reuters coverage of police brutality in Iran [link to thepiratebay.org]
#23 Anti-riot police butchering people in traffic [link to thepiratebay.org]
#24 Motorized para-police private footage [link to thepiratebay.org]
#25 SHOCKING: another murdered by police [link to thepiratebay.org]
@@@ The third compilation [link to thepiratebay.org] all the videos we uploaded
#26 Man killed by Basij - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC [link to thepiratebay.org]
#27 Headshot - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC [link to thepiratebay.org]
#28 Man is beaten to death by antiriot police [link to thepiratebay.org]
#29 Iranian man shot in the leg by police [link to thepiratebay.org]
#30 Azeri protesters in Iran attacked by police [link to thepiratebay.org]
#31 This is what plainclothed police is [link to thepiratebay.org]
#### collection of pics, docs and vids [link to thepiratebay.org]
#32 Riot Police Attack Tehran University Students [link to thepiratebay.org]
#33 Police firing on students June 18th [link to thepiratebay.org]
Grumpy Scribe
User ID: 666646
6/20/2009 4:29 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.

Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.

Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -

1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.

Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran’s election.

I narrowed the spammers down to three of the most persistent - @StopAhmadi @IranRiggedElect @Change_For_Iran

I decided to do a google search for 2 of the 3 - @StopAhmadi and @IranRiggedElect. The first page to come up was JPost (Jerusalem Post) which is a right wing newspaper pro-Israeli newspaper.

JPost actually ran a story about 3 people “who joined the social network mere hours ago have already amassed thousands of followers.” Why would a news organization post a story about 3 people who JUST JOINED TWITTER hours earlier? Is that newsworthy? Jpost was the first (and only to my knowledge) major news source that mentioned these 3 spammers.

The fact that JPost promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment is, unfortunately, evidence that this was an Israeli propaganda campaign against Iran. I must admit that I had my suspiscions. After all, Que Bono? (latin for “Who Benefits). There’s no question that Israel perceives Iran as an enemy, more so than any other nation. Destabilizing the country would benefit them.
Meet The Spammers

IranRiggedElect
3146 followers. 31 friends.
340 tweets in past 4 days. none before that.
Top 5 words - iranelection, cnnfail, mousavi, tehran,
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 12pm and 2pm eastern standard time
Most retweets: @StopAhmadi @IranElection09 @change_for_iran

Change_for_Iran
14,000 followers. 0 friends
117 tweets in 2 days. none before that.
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern.
Top 5 words: iranelection, people, police, right, students
No retweets

IranElection09
800 followers. 9 friends.
196 tweets in 3 days. none before that.
185 in English. 11 in Farsi (Arabic appearing letters. Not sure if it’s Farsi)
Time: bulk between 2:00pm and 6:00pm eastern. Also 1:00am.
Top 5 words: iranelection, rt, mousavi, tehran, march
Most retweets: @IranRiggedElect @StopAhmadi

StopAhmadi
6199 followers. 53 friends.
1107 tweets in past 3 days. None before then.
top 5 words: iranelection, ppl, news, rt, iran.
All tweets in English
Time: bulk between 9:00am and 5:00pm eastern
Most retweets: @mohamadreza @mahdi

mohamadreza
1433 followers. 142 friends
(protected account. cant see data)

The following all have the same photo in their profile and are followed by the profiles previously mentioned.

whereismyvote_normal

[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com] (14,000 followers)
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com] (800 followers. 9 friends.)

Click below for the JPost Article

[link to www.chartingstocks.net]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 441568




wow Great Job of super sleuthing Sherlock you idiot. So when the rebellion is crushed we can thank you for continuing a regime of psychopathic savages in robes who are locked into the 9th century and have terroized all of Western Civilization for 30 years! Why don't you keep you mouth shut and let these people sack these mullahs and hang 'em from a light pole?

If Isreali intelligence does it, good for them. If the CIA is helping good for us! Shame on us if we're not helping! Are you crazy? This is Lech Welessa in Poland in 1988 and you're trying to help the Soviets! Are you crazy? SHUT UP!

Useful idiot! AND MAOBAMA DOESN'T WANT TO INTERFERE? Gutless Moonbat liberal Law professor
Grumpy Scribe in Bluestateville MA (groan)
Wasayo
User ID: 1988
6/20/2009 9:17 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

bump bump yoda i just found a link to THIS very important thread on whatreallyhappened.com. GLP wins again... with great international news! Wasayo
"Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him." Prov. 30:5
Grumpy Scribe
User ID: 666646
6/20/2009 9:26 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Not only does Twitter allow Americans to engage in participant voyeurism, it allows them to create the “news” about Iran for Iranians themselves, and apparently making it up as they go along. Indeed, anyone can be an Iranian in Twitter, and in fact all are being encouraged to “become” Iranian as in this other vastly over-repeated tweet:

RT help protect Iranian tweeters by changing your timezone to GMT+3:30 and location to Tehran

In addition, having urged all to do as above, there is a further effort to mask the identity of alleged Iranian Twitter users:

When re-tweeting sources from Iran please delete handler name. Type RT SOURCE from Iran #iranelection #gr88 VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Pls RT
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 707473



thank you! Now here is a true Patriot trying to protect these people. We need to support the revolutionaries with targeted missiles on the mosques holding these hateful old men in dirty beards and a 9th Century pathologically insanely insecure psychology,
Grumpy Scribe in Bluestateville MA (groan)
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 707732
6/20/2009 9:28 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Id bet money, our resident muslim hater known as Mathetes, has been spending alot of time over at Twitter .
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 704382
6/20/2009 10:00 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Usual suspects (M.I.6, C-I-A, n' the Mossadomites i.e Zionist intelligence infrastructure) trying to start a "color revolution" (todays color is Green) to further the ends of The Peckerheads That Blow (TPTB). Hawkish rhetoric isn't able to sell a Zionist assault of Iran on the world stage so now the Zionazi's are fomenting said "color revolution" to accomplish 2 main objectives:

1. Destabilize the country Iran, as per the usual communist methodology (i.e. destabilize, demoralize, instigate revolution and then takeover).

2. Sell the west (Europe, US, Canada but esp, the US) on the necessity of "regime change" via media manipulation designed to tug at the heart strings of "joe publics" who are either too dimwitted or intellectually lazy to see through such machinations. Similar methodology has been for strategic propagandization in the past (ex. 9/11, "holocaust", school shootings commited by MONARCH "assets" whilst in SSRI-induced somnabulized state). Watch as Zio-Media sources try to instigate a hue 'n cry over the need to engage in some type of "intervention" in order to support "democracy" and "freedom" in Iran.

If anybody doubts the above assertions, I would ask them to reserve these doubts until they first ask themselves two questions.

1. Since when have the above mentioned western governments given a shit about the Iranian people (without ulterior motive that is). Hell, the US gave Sadam Hussein all kinds of weapons (including chemical and biological weapons) to kill 1000's upon 1000's of Iranians, now we care?

2. Since when has the Zio-Media truly cared about stolen elections? There have been at least two major stolen elections in the US and one in Mexico with no significant noise being made about such by the Zio-Media (MSM)?

My 2 cents...FWIW

Props to OP for bringing this to the attention of all intelligent and discerning people who recognize that when it comes to geopolitics there is almost always "more than meets the eye".
love69
User ID: 707621
6/20/2009 10:04 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.

Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.

Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -

1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.
2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.
3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword
4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.
5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo
6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.

Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran’s election.

I narrowed the spammers down to three of the most persistent - @StopAhmadi @IranRiggedElect @Change_For_Iran

I decided to do a google search for 2 of the 3 - @StopAhmadi and @IranRiggedElect. The first page to come up was JPost (Jerusalem Post) which is a right wing newspaper pro-Israeli newspaper.

JPost actually ran a story about 3 people “who joined the social network mere hours ago have already amassed thousands of followers.” Why would a news organization post a story about 3 people who JUST JOINED TWITTER hours earlier? Is that newsworthy? Jpost was the first (and only to my knowledge) major news source that mentioned these 3 spammers.

The fact that JPost promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment is, unfortunately, evidence that this was an Israeli propaganda campaign against Iran. I must admit that I had my suspiscions. After all, Que Bono? (latin for “Who Benefits). There’s no question that Israel perceives Iran as an enemy, more so than any other nation. Destabilizing the country would benefit them.
Meet The Spammers

IranRiggedElect
3146 followers. 31 friends.
340 tweets in past 4 days. none before that.
Top 5 words - iranelection, cnnfail, mousavi, tehran,
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 12pm and 2pm eastern standard time
Most retweets: @StopAhmadi @IranElection09 @change_for_iran

Change_for_Iran
14,000 followers. 0 friends
117 tweets in 2 days. none before that.
All tweets in English
Time: Bulk between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern.
Top 5 words: iranelection, people, police, right, students
No retweets

IranElection09
800 followers. 9 friends.
196 tweets in 3 days. none before that.
185 in English. 11 in Farsi (Arabic appearing letters. Not sure if it’s Farsi)
Time: bulk between 2:00pm and 6:00pm eastern. Also 1:00am.
Top 5 words: iranelection, rt, mousavi, tehran, march
Most retweets: @IranRiggedElect @StopAhmadi

StopAhmadi
6199 followers. 53 friends.
1107 tweets in past 3 days. None before then.
top 5 words: iranelection, ppl, news, rt, iran.
All tweets in English
Time: bulk between 9:00am and 5:00pm eastern
Most retweets: @mohamadreza @mahdi

mohamadreza
1433 followers. 142 friends
(protected account. cant see data)

The following all have the same photo in their profile and are followed by the profiles previously mentioned.

whereismyvote_normal

[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com] (14,000 followers)
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com]
[link to twitter.com] (800 followers. 9 friends.)

Click below for the JPost Article

[link to www.chartingstocks.net]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 441568


awesome investigative reporting! again... damn it!! Where is any real jounalism in this (or ANY) country anymore??
Good detectives love coincidences ...
WomanInBlack
User ID: 671963
6/20/2009 10:08 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Unfortunately, journalism proper has not existed for awhile :(
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Les Ruines De La Modernité-Pendaison De L'Humanité
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 707746
6/20/2009 10:19 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

bump for the truth about #iranelections... the propaganda channel responsible for most of the pins in GLP lately

shame on you hatemongers
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 554725
6/21/2009 5:46 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

EXCELLENT EXPOSE! BUMP! bump
mathetes
User ID: 514914
6/21/2009 5:59 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

EXCELLENT EXPOSE! BUMP! bump
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 554725

The super Jews are once again controlling stupid Muslims....they are making millions of Iranians protest yet can't get 50 or so to sabotage the Iranian nuke plants.

That is what you shills are saying right? That Muslims are not smart enough to figure out how to use Twitter, FB or proxies. And people say I'm anti-Muslim


lol
"The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
The command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory.
John Quincy Adams
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 683425
6/21/2009 6:51 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

Assume assume assume!
Irani
User ID: 710491
6/24/2009 7:02 AM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

I don't understand why people are reading your article?!
You googled it and couple of results came with "JPOST", so what?! Or many has subscribed on Saturday, I did too, maybe I I work for Musad too! People like yourself, only want something against Isreal, no matter who the source is, Is he killing his own people? Is he stealing his own people money to feed the Hezbolah? It's not your problem, Is it? Now honestly, who do you work for? Why don't you just shut up
and have some respect for those who are getting killed for freedom. What's you name anyway?!!!
Grizzled Old Goat
User ID: 703618
6/24/2009 8:03 AM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

I don't understand why people are reading your article?!
You googled it and couple of results came with "JPOST", so what?! Or many has subscribed on Saturday, I did too, maybe I I work for Musad too! People like yourself, only want something against Isreal, no matter who the source is, Is he killing his own people? Is he stealing his own people money to feed the Hezbolah? It's not your problem, Is it? Now honestly, who do you work for? Why don't you just shut up
and have some respect for those who are getting killed for freedom. What's you name anyway?!!!
 Quoting: Irani 710491


brav01


Are you listening, apologistatards?
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 712519
6/26/2009 5:40 PM
Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via TwitterQuote

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poor women look at her face you fucking animals about to stone this women look at the terror in her face its fucking appalling the most viscous bastered race on the planet .... and you hate jews for protecting themselfs


You should have seen her face when her husband caught her in the act of adultery, Man that was more funnier than stoning! peace
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