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The Twitter firehose is glutted with retweets, hashtags, and information of every possible bias and contradition surrounding one topic: The recent election in Iran and supposed fraud in tallying votes for the losing candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

In the aftermath of the election, during which a (some say statistically improbable landslide) victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced, the social media buzz grew into a roar as a meme began to circulate: Where Is My Vote. A website, several Facebook pages, and now thousands of tweets have ensured few social web users have not yet heard of the controversy and the Iranian government's response of censorship.

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On the official Twitter blog today, cofounder Biz Stone announced that scheduled maintenance on the app, a critical network upgrade, would be postponed.

"In coordination with Twitter," Stone wrote, "our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network Read More...