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The "Twitter-spark" igniting the flames of revolution has wrongly emerged in recent days as the dominant lead-in to stories on the recent social upheval in Iran. It seems so odd that the credit has gone, as Mike Madden so rightly points out, to this technology, almost to the exclusion of actual issues and events and the individuals who have participated in them. Why is it that the only way we as Americans can identify with the struggles and aspirations of others is by co-opting their "moment" with inane observations about our possible contributions to it, through a communication platform that has thus far been used for delivering to the world the often inarticulate banalities of self-promoting C-level celebrities and future-hungry politicians?
