If you track #iranelection on Twitter, you’ll see that it is refreshing at a rate of about 30 to 40 tweets per second.  Not all of that is coming from Iran, of course, and a lot of it is retweets.

But it’s still pretty remarkable.  According to at least one report, part of the reason is that the regime is having a much harder time shutting down access to twitter than other social media.

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