Pfeifle: If Anyone Deserves Nobel Prize, It's Twitter Founders

A Nobel Prize for Twitter? Mark Pfeifle, former deputy national security advisor for President George W. Bush, told Fox News Channel in speaking about the election crisis in Iran, “If there’s anybody that should possibly get a Nobel Peace Prize in the next time around, it should be the founders of Twitter. who delayed the tuning up of their system in order for an amazing amount of tweets to be sent out in the last week or so,” TechCrunch reported.

Pfeifle also told Fox News 221,000 Tweets were sent about Iran June 17, and 3,000 videos were uploaded to YouTube.

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