Winning Mark

Twitter user @arikfr has created a one-click application that lets Twitter users turn their avatar green, to match the campaign color used by challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Turn your Avatar green at helpiranelection.com.

If you're familiar with other applications that use the Twitter API, you know how once you tell the application to connect to Twitter, you're taken to Twitter, and your Twitter account will ask you to confirm or deny the request for the application to connect to your Twitter account.

In the case of this application, as soon as you confirm, it will pull down a copy of your avatar image, turn it a green hue, and replace your existing avatar, like you see here with our target.

For more on the incredibly important role of the Internet, and especially social networks, in Iran right now, check out some of these articles:

On the Protests in Iran: Technology rages against the machine 0SF Gate)

Facebook is the best hope for Democracy in Iran (Telegraph.co.uk)

U.S. Government Asks Twitter to Stay Up for #IranElection Crisis (Mashable)

Google, Facebook offer services in Farsi (Financial Post)

Posted by Jeff Lennan on June 21, 2009 in Social Media