jackwilson (True Core Lover): In June 2009, following allegations of fraud in the Iranian presidential election, protesters used Twitter as a rallying tool and as a method of communication with the outside world after the government blocked several other modes of communication.[104][105][106][107] On June 15 Twitter rescheduled a planned 90-minute maintenance outage after a number *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): of Twitter users and the US State Department asked Twitter executives to delay the shutdown because of concerns about the service's role as a primary communication medium by the protesters in Iran.[108][109] CNN's coverage of the conflict was criticized in tweets with the hashtag #CNNfail.[110] Twitter was also used to organize DDoS attacks against Iranian government websites.[111] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In August 2009, when American opponents of President Barack Obama's health insurance reform proposals attacked the British National Health Service, thousands of NHS users took part in a Twitter campaign expressing their support for the NHS with use of the #welovetheNHS hashtag. The hashtag was initiated by Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): who said he wanted to use a twitter campaign "as a counterweight against the lies of the American right".[112] The campaign also received the support of several politicians including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.[113][114][115] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): New York City activist Elliot Madison used twitter to report an order to disperse message from the Pittsburgh police during the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh protests. Police raided Madison's hotel room, and one week later Madison's New York home was raided by FBI agents, who *
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