The last ISP in Egypt is now down.. Egypt is totally black..

**MajikMyst** · 1st February 2011 02:38 AM

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

1/31/2011 02:27:00 PM
Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.

Posted by Ujjwal Singh, CoFounder of SayNow and AbdelKarim Mardini, Product Manager, Middle East & North Africa

Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

This both a topic of discussion and also a way to pass a long some information should we have any Egyptians on our forum.. Or anyone for that matter wishing to send a message..

**jackalope** · 1st February 2011 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by MajikMyst

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

1/31/2011 02:27:00 PM
Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.

Posted by Ujjwal Singh, CoFounder of SayNow and AbdelKarim Mardini, Product Manager, Middle East & North Africa

Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

This both a topic of discussion and also a way to pass a long some information should we have any Egyptians on our forum.. Or anyone for that matter wishing to send a message..

I just saw an article on this. "Speak to tweets" are being sent out now. I heard Egypt is going to cut off cell service before the big demonstration, I wonder if that will cut off 'speak to tweets' too.

Google Launches Twitter Workaround For Egypt
Alexei Oreskovic
Reuters US Online Report Internet News

Jan 31, 2011 21:50 EST

(snip ... )

Dozens of the so-called speak-to-tweet messages were featured on Twitter on Monday. The messages ranged from a few seconds to several minutes and featured people identifying themselves as Egyptians and describing the situations in various parts of the country.

"The government is spreading rumors of fear and of burglary and of violence," said one of the messages from an English speaker. "The only incidence of theft and burglary are done by the police themselves."

Google Launches Twitter Workaround For Egypt | TPM News Pages

**Bluegrass** · 1st February 2011 10:22 AM

Thanks for the update.

**jackalope** · 1st February 2011 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Bluegrass

Thanks for the update.

Welcs

**NiteGuy** · 1st February 2011 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by jackalope

I just saw an article on this. "Speak to tweets" are being sent out now. I heard Egypt is going to cut off cell service before the big demonstration, I wonder if that will cut off 'speak to tweets' too.

Nope. You can still get to these services via hardline as well. Still a lot of them in the Middle East, as opposed to here. And Egypt's going to have a problem killing all their cell service. That's largely how the government, such as it is, has been communicating with the police and military. Welcome to the digital age.