balatarin

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During the protests in Iran this summer over the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the social networking tool Twitter reason for overnight went from frivolous life: The world outside Iran followed every stream of information that trickled out on mobile phones equipped with the Twitter application.

Since then, activists have only become more sophisticated in how to organize protests and dissemination of information online. These days all the action "within the country and between migrants are politically active on Facebook and Digg-like site called Balatarin.com.

Nikahang Kowsar, an Iranian political cartoonist based in Toronto, who also heads a center for Iranian news has more than 11,000 connections friend on Facebook. The limit is 5,000 per profile, so Kowsar has three profiles, online spending 11 hours a day, responding to emails, managing your news site and maintaining their profiles.