Twitter Green Avatars
18 June, 2009As a post script to my last post, many people are adding green to their avatars on facebook/twitter in support for the Iran election protests. If you want to change your avatar here are some options;
- Creative bits has created some green avatars
- Nima Heydarian has more green avatars for download.
- I borrowed a green ribbon from wikimedia and overlaid it on my existing avatar, there’s now a one click way to add a ribbon.
- Or add a green overlay to your twitter avatar with one click (160,000 people have used this as of Monday 19.00 CET). Interview with the developer, Arik Fraimovich.
I’ll add more as I find them. Once you’ve greened your icon you can add it to the greenwall (6550 added so far, and still counting).
Other bits and pieces of interest
- To view images of the protests, there’s a flickr stream, the images range from hope-filled to gruesome.
- To see search terms on the rise, here’s a google trends analysis of key terms.
- To see trends across all social media here’s a collection, and another from Mashable.
- Amnesty International’s reports are here
Other ways you can help
- write via Amnesty International
- set up a tor
- change your location on twitter to an Iranian city, this makes it harder for authorities to isolate protesters
- more ideas at Reunify Gally
And a couple of things to watch out for;
- be wary of the source of information, it seems the authorities are feeding misinformation into twitter
- do not retweet names or avatars, twitter is being watched – and those tweeters are in danger
[...] If you do want to do more than “show support,” @leahhitchens on Twitter pointed me to this post. If you follow the links therein, there are even more ideas that will do much more to help Iranians [...]
i have added desktop backgrounds from the green wall – available for download on the site.
thank you for this wonderful resource
[...] and how quickly false information is spread on Twitter. He sees online activism campaigns, such as coloring one’s Twitter avatar green in support of Iranian protesters, acts of slacktivism, “where our digital effort make us feel very useful and important but have zero social [...]
[...] If you do want to do more than “show support,” @leahhitchens on Twitter pointed me to this post. If you follow the links therein, there are even more ideas that will do much more to help Iranians [...]