Twi-betan Irony
by Imran Ali
Seems like last week’s pursuit of the Olympic Flame through San Francisco, by pro-Tibetan protesters, was aided and abetted by local Twitter users.
A digest of Twitters from last Wednesday illustrates how residents of the city torch-spotted and crowdsensed the Renegade Receptacle across the city, helping protesters zero-in on the Combustable Contender. Sadly, the flame Hot-Footed it to safety and the protesters were unable to extinguish the Fiery One.
Flamegate has however ignited global repercussions with various European leaders beginning to decline attendance of Bejing’s opening ceremonies…though our very own Gordon Brown *will* have be around for the closing ceremonies, in order to accept the flame for London 2012.
I did wonder about the irony of the San Franciscan Twitterati standing up for Tibetan freedoms with their Chinese-built iPhones…
