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Mousavi Acknowledges Social Media's Importance

The Iran protests continue to escalate and have seen their most violent days over the weekend. Social media played a key role in informing the world about the events and the presidential opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has recently posted a note on his Facebook account acknowledging its importance. “To...

22 June 2009
09:29 GMT

Facebook Releases Persian Version

Almost at the same time as Google added support for the Persian language in its Google Translate service, Facebook also launched a version of its site in Persian. The social networking website was already working on Persian language support, but decided to step up its efforts and release it sooner than previously pla...

19 June 2009
04:25 GMT

Google Translate Adds Support for Persian

With the Iran protests still going and social media platforms getting a lot of attention in the process Google has decided to add the Persian (Farsi) language to its Google Translate service. The company rushed the Persian language support because of the unfolding events in Iran so there may still be problems with th...

19 June 2009
03:40 GMT

Iran's Elections Reported on Twitter

Social media is becoming more and more important in the political life as last year's US presidential elections showed. But while President Barak Obama got a lot of coverage on YouTube or Facebook, social networking sites play a much more crucial role in countries with restricted access to information. This was ...

15 June 2009
04:39 GMT


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