Want to help save lives? If you have a twitter account, change the location and timezone to Tehran

[Dark]

Note to Mods: I have also posted to other forums. However, I think that helping to save lives and helping to protect free speech is important, and this is an easy way to do it.

[lindisfarne]

1. You might get more compliance if you explained why this works and perhaps provide

a link to an article about this.

[Dark]

4. Another DUer has come to my aid. See post #3

nt

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. Boing Boing instructions - and I did this

You change your twitter profile.

From Boing Boing:

Help cover the bloggers:
change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become 'Iranians' it becomes much harder to find them.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for-i.html

Twitter is the main way for Iranians to evade the govt's blocking of communication and news.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Done and done.

The authorities in Iran are trying to find Iranian twitter accounts by doing searches. Changing your information makes it a little harder for them to find Spartacus.

Here's a couple of good links:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4452509
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/iran-uprising-changes-nuc_b_216583.html

[NYC_SKP]

3. Per Twitter, this will confound any Irani Govt attempts to identify protesters.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23IranElection

[vaberella]

5. I'll K*R this to keep it alive for tomorrow. You should put this on facebook. n/t

[Dark]

6. I already have.

and myspace and twitter and others.

[sandnsea]

7. Done, hope it helps n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

9. This post finally got me to start a twitter account, just so I could switch it to tehran

and talk some shit...

[DKRC]

17. +1

Not into Twitter, but if signing up & changing time/location will help save even one life there it was well worth my time.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. k+r, n/t

[DaveinJapan]

11. Okay, I'm dumb...

Can't find the time zone/location option on my Facebook page (Twitter was easy).

Help?

[populistdriven]

18. twitter.com/account/settings

http://twitter.com/account/settings

[billyoc]

12. I say that action will get people killed, and that you are an agent of Ahmedinijad.

See how much fun Twitter is?

[Teaser]

13. player hater

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[invictus]

14. K&R

[Diamonique]

15. Done

I also sent the info/instructions to friends.

[K Gardner]

16. Done. Christiana Amanpour has also posted a "friend's" name to add to Facebook..

he's broadcasting live feeds from Tehran. Since it's on her Facebook page, she's asked people to add him, and thousands are doing it, I don't suppose it will hurt to post it here.

Saeed Valadbaygi

http://www.facebook.com/saeed.valadbaygi?ref=nf

[GardeningGal]

19. Just created a Twitter account so I could do this. nt