Twitter Empowers Iran Protest Movement and Shows How Use of Emergent Social Media Can Affect Unfolding Events

Influence, the online journal covering innovations in communication, technology and strategy, has a very interesting piece on how the Revolution in Iran has become Twitterfied and what that means as a high profile example of "the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement."

So what do you think about this rapidly progressing trend to use Twitter and similar Web 2.0 social networking capabilities? This "genie" is clearly well out of the bottle now and won't be going back in, that's for sure, and the world has certainly taken notice in a big way, by the compelling way that Twitter and other social media have been used.