Hillary's Digital Diplomacy: Diffusing Rumors about Embassy Siege in Madagascar

I have been following the ongoing coup of President Marc Ravalomanana throughout this semester and I came across the above article inadvertently. I thought it was so interesting especially as we have covered digital diplomacy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is beginning to utilize a lot more technological resources to further inform the American public about what she is doing. She has reactivated a blog on the Secretary of State website, began a new "Text the Secretary" application on the website, utilized the social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, and or course, arms herself with a Blackberry. What caught my attention as I was reading the article was during the discussion of how the State Department has benefitted from Twitter citing that "this past week, diplomats used Twitter to 'tweet' down false rumors they feared might lead to a siege on the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar." Well isn't this just digital diplomacy at work?