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Iran Briefly Loses Grip on Social Media

2013-09-17 20:48:37| TechNewsWorld

Facebook and Twitter were widely available to Iranian netizens on Monday. Come Tuesday, however, things were back to normal: The sites were blocked. Faulty Internet filters reportedly caused the sites to become available -- not some newfound progressive streak in Tehran. Western-born social media sites were blocked during protests over former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2009.

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