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	cygnia 2009-06-21 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Done. (Reply to this)

	damnedfallacy 2009-06-21 03:11 am UTC (link)
	I did it. I figured it wouldn't hurt and it could possibly help, so why not? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	librarianmouse 2009-06-21 03:28 am UTC (link)
	That's what I figured too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hallidae 2009-06-21 03:56 am UTC (link)
	Is it just twitter, or are they going through other blog sites, too? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	come_love_sleep 2009-06-21 04:00 am UTC (link)
	I am sure that they must be going through other sites, but Twitter is their worst enemy at the moment. Probably FB also, at the very least. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	felinephoenix 2009-06-22 03:40 am UTC (link)
	They're using other sites too, but because of how it's set up (able to use through mobile devices as well as the web) Twitter is the best avenue. There was a good Time article about why Twitter, specifically, was being used. (At least I think it was Time?) I'll have to try and dig it up. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2009-06-21 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Question is, if it's that simple, why aren't the Iranians just telling Twitter they're in Sao Paulo? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	come_love_sleep 2009-06-21 05:21 am UTC (link)
	Oh, a bunch of them are, at least according to an article I read earlier (somewhere, in the dozens I've read today; I could hunt for it if you want). I think at this point it's an every-bit-helps sort of thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melannen 2009-06-21 05:32 am UTC (link)
	I'd imagine part of the reason is that many Iranians using Twitter have very undependable Internet access, and are using it for things like talking to each other instead of for figuring out how to change their timezone settings. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kijikun 2009-06-21 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	Many of them are having to use third party things to be able to twitter and its not easy to change your timezone without going to the twitter website which is blocked in Iran. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amadi 2009-06-21 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	Also, it's hard enough figure out which Twitters who claim that they're in Iran really are, if their location said something else, their legitimacy in reporting things would be diminished. (Reply to this)(Parent)

tokaikko
2009-06-21 10:38 pm UTC (link)

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but I know next to zero about this stuff but am just trying to read up on this topic now. Question: what would they do with a Twitter they find of someone who's just changed their timezone and location but isn't actually there? How would they determine that? I don't even understand how they could find anyone through Twitter, so that just shows how much I know about not only this situation, but the internet in general.

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ladysphinx
2009-06-22 12:57 am UTC (link)

If by "they" you mean the Iranian government, then nothing; they can't exactly get at anyone on the other side of an account in a foreign country. If by "they" you mean Twitter, don't worry about it. People fake their locations online all the time for perfectly legitimate security reasons. Feasibly you could be traced through your IP address, but in this case no one would bother, since you would not be using your account to do anything illegal.

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	tokaikko 2009-06-22 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Okay, thank you! (And I did mean the Iranian government, for the record.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fevered_ego 2009-06-21 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	My roomie signed up just to do this, and I decided to change my info too. I wish I could get involved in even bigger shenanigans... (Reply to this)