Reading Tweets from Iran? Give thanks to Falun Gong.

With Iran closing down internet servers of dissent, how did the Revolutionary Tweeters get their 140's out to the world?

Thanks to the Chinese!

No, not the Controlling Communist Party, but dissidents who over the course of the past decade have developed software called FREEGATE and many tricks to evade or climb around firewalls.

It is because of the Falun Gong and other groups that the ruling party in China dislikes, we were able to read the tweetlies coming from Iran.

NY Times Columnist Nicolas Kristof uses more than 140 characters to explain it here.
Kristof's NY Times Column