The twitter service not only came into it’s own over the past few days, but also proved to be fantastic world citizens by postponing scheduled maintenance that would have seen the server offline for almost an hour.

Since the recent elections in Iran, twitter users inside Iran have been posting updates on the violence and brutality that has ensued after protests sprang up contesting the result.

Earlier this morning australian time, twitter announced routine scheduled maintenance was due soon, and within minutes, wave after wave of message was posted to the service begging the engineers to postpone the updates so that communications with people in Iran could continue to use the service.

It’s a testament to the management of Twitter that they did indeed announce that this maintenance would be postponed until the situation subsides in Iran.

For up to the minute info about the situation in Iran, check out the twitter feed for #iranelection

Update: talk is that the Iranian government is actively blocking the twitter tag #iranelection, so the folks using twitter are switching to #iran9