That's deleting the entire #IranElection movement, the first social movement on Twitter that actually impacted the national discourse.

The 2009 #IranElection on Twitter was a practice run for what would happen during the Arab Spring, in terms of breaking through to the outside world with direct communication of breaking events, analysis, and mutual aid. I have no idea what that looks like now in our broken online environment.

Remember (who am I kidding, you do not remember) the 1995 Iraqi Presidential Referendum where Saddam did the classic thing of 'only one name on the ballot lolol guess who'? Remember the 2009 #IranElection uprising by comparison, one of the things that *made* International Breaking Politics Twitter?

It should come as no surprise that platforms like TikTok, X, and Meta that are cited in that article are the ones diminishing the efficacy of hashtags.

They are fundamentally disrespectful to, and some might argue, contemptuous of their user base and are against the activites that hashtags enable.

👇🇮🇷"Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian elected Iran's president" #IranElection #NewIranianPresident

Come on, ghosts of 2009
#iranelection #iranprotests #iran #fascism #deathToDictators
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!

I'm still shocked about Elon deleting all twitter media before 2014. The Arab Spring. #IranElection. It's not just history, it's a record of how those movements were built. What worked.

There's a reason fascists don't want that content available.

Der Grammy-Gewinner Shervin Hajipour wurde heute für sein Protestlied Baraye von der Islamischen Republik zu 4 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt.

Jina #MahsaAmini
#ShervinHajipour #JinJiyanAzadi
#iranElection

youtu.be/BKo6DqTU7M8?...

Dans le segment LCI affiché ci-dessus, Lasserre explique au premier degré que "ces manifs sont différentes à cause d'une image virale"... Bitch, please... 2009 c'était l'invention des images chocs pour capter l'attention à l'international sur les médias sociaux
literature.duke.edu/books/iranel...

This book discusses how Twitter was a platform for counter-narratives. I was lucky to see the authors speak a few years ago at Boston U. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204337...

The reports of the death of the hashtag MIGHT be greatly exaggerated. 😊

Also, taking any excuse to share "Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice"
by Sarah J. Jackson,
Moya Bailey and
Brooke Foucault Welles

@mitpress.bsky.social
#CiteASister #BlackSky #BookSky #HashtagActivism

Is winning online information wars particularly meaningful anymore now that trad and social media are both fragmented

Has it ever mattered since #iranelection?

Are there cases where OIWs unambiguously changed an outcome? I can’t think of one. In all cases, more fundamental shifts were afoot.

quando entrei no twitter o trending topic do final de 2008 era #iranelection. hj o trending topic do twitter dos chatos é #iranconflict. só queria um mousepad imitando um tapetinho persa.

Twitter (now dead) I was reeling from a bad divorce. Went on Twitter to see what #iranelection was all about. I met my sweetheart there, dancing in the rain, and said to myself, “Oh, I’ll follow him!” That was almost 17 years ago. I still love him madly 😊

Die Islamische Republik hat erfolgreich eine Zeitmaschine getestet.

Das Foto unten ist von 2016 und dieser Haji ist vor zwei Jahren gestorben, heute steht er an der Wahlurne! 😂

Jina #Mahsa_Amini
#iranElection
#IRGCterrorists
#IranRevolution

Laut @nishtmani_joan liegt die Wahlbeteiligung in den Städten der Provinzen mit kurdischer Bevölkerung (West-Aserbaidschan, Kurdestan, Kermanschah, Ilam, Hamadan, Lorestan) um 16:20 Ortszeit bei unter 5%.

Jina #Mahsa_Amini
#iranElection
#IRGCterrorists
#IranRevolution

Vom Innenministerium der Islamischen Republik die ungefähren Statistiken zur Teilnahme der Menschen bis heute Abend um 20:00 Uhr:

Stadt Teheran; 6,5 Prozent
Provinz Teheran; 8 Prozent
Das ganze Land; 12 Prozent

Der Gewinner des Wahlzirkus ist eindeutig der Iran

#سيرک_انتخابات
#iranElection

Listening to it now, it's really interesting to me, because I was one of the people who used the #IranElection hashtag in 2011, one of the first political hashtags to raise awareness about something in a regime that didn't have a free press. That movement lost, sadly, when the leader was arrested.

Esse dia vou lembrar pra sempre. É um #iranelection, um #belasartes

Armchair revolution FTW

@tifroz here's my post on #iranelection with some screenshots of @twazzup -- <a href="http://is.gd/5wlGV" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://is.gd/5wlGV

This essay reminds me of a time on Twitter in 2011 during the #IranElection protests. I said I thought it was terrible that it's illegal to be atheist in Iran or even sell books about atheism. But someone replied that from the Basiji point of view, this is protecting the nation from God's wrath.

It’s good to be here! Everyone says it’s like old tweetybird, but I have yet to see anything line #IranElection, #HaitiEarthquake or #UmbrellaRevolution. That ever happen?

Nach ersten Stichproben der Bevölkerung lag die Wahlbeteiligung in der Islamischen Republik nicht bei den Verbreiteten 41%, sondern viel mehr bei max 4,1% . Die IR hat die Statistik um den Faktor 10, teilweise sogar 11, verfälscht.

Jina #MahsaAmini
#IranRevolution
#iranElection
#IRGCterrorists

Had rare luxury of listening to full hour of Uprising Radio. First: Understanding the Iranian Uprising: http://tr.im/pC61 #iranelection

Oh wow that's from 2007! I was also thinking of #IranElection from 2009 www.npr.org/2009/06/19/1...