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"There is no evidence that Twitter, the hot social networking site, played any role in Iran's spring revolt," writes Salon. "Twitter users could feel like they were doing something important and making themselves part of the story. That was, unfortunately, probably about all they were doing. "It's slacktivism," said Evgeny Morozov, who studies the use of new technology in democracy movements, in June 2009."

http://www.salon.com/news/bogus_stories_2009/2009/12/21/iran_twitter_revolution

"Smug Twitter activists are wrong to think they are liberating Iran," writes Will Heaven in the Telegraph. "Twitter and other online networks have not improved the situation in Iran. It is deluded to think that "hashtags", "Tweets" and "Twibbons" have threatened the regime for a second. If all the internet could muster in a decade was smug armchair activists and pontificating techies, we may as well all log off in the New Year."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6903781/Iran-and-Twitter-the-fatal-folly-of-the-online-revolutionaries.html