Twittering The Great Firewall

What hath Twitter wrought? First Iran, now China?

The People’s Republic of China has apparently barred its citizens from visiting a host of Google properties, including the main search engine, Google Apps, Google Reader and Gmail. A search on Twitter reveals that many Chinese are complaining, particularly about not being able to use the search engine, although it appears Google.cn can still be reached at this point.

It makes me wonder what might have happened had twitter been available in 1765, when the Stamp Act was passed and the first real stirrings of American independence began. Would the American Revolution have happened ten years early?