The Revolution Will Be Tweeted?

Let me start off with saying that I’m pretty pleased that the Iranian people are off their butts and risking life and limb to participate in the democratic process.  It goes without saying that is impressive, especially from my context: a supposed democracy where barely half the population can drag themselves to a polling station despite a lack of threats.  So, that’s cool in my book.  Way to go, Iran.  What boggles my mind, however, is that Twitter and YouTube are being lauded as the harbingers of revolution as Iranians have been able to plan protests via Twitter and document the proceedings with cell phone video cameras via YouTube.