The originally booked for Mon. evening to make space for traffic increases over the last few months, Twitter requested the network capacity upgrade more than seven thousand miles away from the election at its San Jose facility to be delayed, according to a DatacenterDynamics report.
Twitter founder Biz Stone asserted in a blog post that NTT readily cooperated, having recognized Twitter’s critical role in Iran at that time. It deferred the upgrade till Tues. afternoon.
The re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been questioned by blogs and social networking sites, which became a crucial resource on the problem, according to the Washington Post. While Iran sorts out whether Ahmadinejad or reform applicant Mir Hossein Mousavi correctly won the election, demonstrations both for the governing body and against ; tranquil and violent ; online and off have been gripping Iran and the globe.
