When Twitter announced the scheduled maintenance shutdown a lot of the Iranian twitterers were very concerned about their ability share information between themselves and the outside world.
Even though I believe the Obama administration should be doing more to help the Iranian demonstrators at least they kept twitter online.
But the state department yesterday confirmed a request was made to Twitter.
The New York Times last night identified the author of the request as Jared Cohen, a 27-year-old state department official. Twitter complied with the request, delaying its overhaul until last night.
PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, told the New York Times: "This was just a call to say: 'It appears Twitter is playing an important role at a crucial time in Iran. Could you keep it going?'"
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