Comments on: Iran’s success with using Twitter as PR tool

By: Thanos Levidiotis

Thanos Levidiotis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:15:16 +0000

There is no doubt that social medias are a huge step up throughout the Internet. They are huge tools for publicists and journalists (like me!). But as they can be used to inform people about certain events that haven’t media coverage, they can also be used to misinform, manipulate and misguide. And assuming you were not told to do so, in the end you will end up with a bad reputation or worse, fired. Sooner or later the truth always comes out, so a journalist or a PR executive should be very careful how he or she uses them. Didi writes above: “and most of us know that all we really have in this life is our name”, I will simply replace the word “life” with “job”…

By: Jim Smelley

Jim Smelley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:27:37 +0000

Yes. The combination of Twitter and mobile phone access has really changed the dynamics of political revolution. Poor Iran, they weren’t smart enough to keep their people poor and illiterate like North Korea. Once you have a reasonably well educated populace and instant access to conversation through your cell phone (as well as those pesky cameras on the back of all of our phones) its awfully hard to quell a rebellion.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:48:08 +0000

Thank you Didi for the wide range of topics you cover in this blog, for broadening our horizon and illustrating how PR is present in many more fields than we imagine!
This “Twitter Revolution” in Iran - as it is referred to by the Medias now - is a great example of how politics and social medias can combine. It reminds me of how blogs and forums enhanced the debate of the last presidential campaign in the US, and other political campaigns in the world. I remember reading an article about it, described as “Viral politics”.