My New America Foundation colleague and Wired Magazine editor Nick Thompson chats about the role of “twitter” and other new media in the post-Iran election protests.
But what is also interesting — and Nick Thompson does not discuss — is that Ahmadinejad-supporting parts of Iran’s government, probably the Ministry of Interior, are trying to entrap people and mislead Mousavi supporters using Twitter.
Here is a list of suspected government and police/security twitter i.d.’s:
* http://twitter.com/lisamforeman (fake press account)
* http://twitter.com/rWhZEV (Fake Iran Election headlines)
* http://twitter.com/AJE_Producer (fake Al’ Jazerra Account)
* http://twitter.com/TruePersian1 (Preaching violence & destruction in all caps.)
* http://twitter.com/amoo_miki (Be wary of this acct. Following many with no updates)
* http://twitter.com/IRElec (Using entrapment techniques that are well known)
* http://twitter.com/Twiter_Thinker (spamming same link over and over, t-shirt sales)
* http://twitter.com/persiantiki
* http://twitter.com/rccccr (following users with Iran election tweets, no posts)
* http://twitter.com/BrothersinAbrah (hashtag post only)
* http://twitter.com/IRFORREAL (fake url for unrelated site)
* http://twitter.com/mikehiavelli
* http://twitter.com/MoonMagician (Same message over and over)
* http://twitter.com/Amir1982
* http://twitter.com/_SuperGreen_
* http://twitter.com/globalmeeting
* http://twitter.com/ghb78
* http://twitter.com/am12976
* http://twitter.com/iranianfree2k9
* http://twitter.com/FreeMediaNews
* http://www.twitter.com/jfcrow (unconfirmed)
* http://twitter.com/Karmuk (Retweeting same message over and over)
* http://twitter.com/chartingstocks (Writing fake articles on the Iranian Election Twitters)
* http://twitter.com/obamaspy
* http://twitter.com/IranisFree
* http://twitter.com/serv_
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— Steve Clemons
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