Twittering While Tehran Burns

I must confess, I'm kind of a Twitter critic. However, today's protests in Iran are a fine example of the utility in social media tools like Twitter.

Iran and related topics are among the "trending topics" today - #IranElection #mousavi #iran #ahmadinejad - and real-time 'tweets' are coming in every minute from Iran and elsewhere. Cell towers are being shut down, and Iranians are well aware that the police state is preparing to come down on them.

And while Twitter provides the news, Flickr is providing the images.

Things are heating up, stay tuned.