A twitter or an API revolution asks Jeff Jarvis?

Jeff Jarvis reflects on the so called Twitter revolution taking place in reporting from Iran.

He though prefers to call it the API revolution.

For it’s Twitter’s architecture - which enables anyone to create applications that call and feed into it - that makes it all but impervious from blocking by tyrants’ censors. Twitter is not a site or a blog at an address. You don’t have to go to it. It can come to you (as newspapers should). Twitter is an outpost in the cloud and there can be unlimited points of access from every application and site using its API, so the crowd can always stay ahead of the people formerly known as the authorities.