As the protest movement of Tunisia in Egypt is to use social media to communicate, inform and organize.
Despite efforts to combat Twitter, Facebook and other sites (the government denies its responsibility), a Facebook page dedicated to the events planned for Friday was more than 80,000 followers are fourteen ET Thursday, compared with nearly 20,000 yesterday.
After comments Twitter with hash tags # # # type Jan25 Cairo and Suez generates an enormous stream of tweets. There is a breath enthusiasm about the many issues that are mostly in Arabic, French and English, but there are also dozens of rumors, very inventive and a lot of exaggeration.
Sifting the wheat from the chaff, for the extraordinary amount of traffic, is a full-time job. A typical recording overrated on a Facebook page Thursday read: ".. Live ammunition was fired on protesters ... Innocent demonstrators who want their basic rights are massacred" There is so much misinformation more information.
Egyptian demonstrators "so quickly"
Egyptian demonstrators online
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* Egypt
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* Twitter Inc.
But social media can help suppliers clue about developments in places that can not reach. For example, it is difficult (and risky) survey of foreign journalists in the city of Suez, which seems to have seen the worst violence in recent days. But a constant tweets and blog posts, photos and mobile video solutions, has at least a little 'orientation in a rapidly evolving situation there. All the land of Egypt, even if one of the big media organizations can not be everywhere, especially when the security forces, throwing up roadblocks.
As events have had (so far) little formal organization, social media becomes an essential tool for organizing appointments. An entry from Twitter, for example, called for March 1 at 3:00 Thursday at Giza, a suburb of Cairo. Second Wednesday calling people to Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Of course, there is a weakness of these methods - because the authorities can read, and a myriad of these rallying cries can be confusing.
In any event, social media can be passed as an organizing tool Friday - Egyptian mosques. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is influential in thousands of mosques throughout the country, called for protests after Friday prayers. But the Brotherhood is a game of catch-up movement has made little impact so far.
social media is also a source of practical advice for those on the street. Tweeter advised people to wash his face, tear gas, warning people to avoid using contact lenses during the protests. "Spit, blow your nose, rinse mouth, gargle. No eyes inside out with his head tilted to one side," said the tweet.
The mere size of an online "business" - and has grown rapidly - is breathtaking. Hashtags # Jan25 began to "trends in the world" on Thursday, producing dozens of Twitter tweets and retweet minute intervals. When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Cairo late Thursday, retweet went into overdrive with a lot of advice from him.
A Facebook page dedicated to the memory of a young man allegedly beaten to death by police in Alexandria - "We all said Khaled" - has exploded to over 20,000 fans. It includes drawings, photographs and videos and messages of solidarity across the Arab world and beyond. An entry of Algeria as follows: "People in Algeria with you" (sic).
There have been some creative creations on Facebook and a blog, too. An activist used the dramatic pictures of riots in Cairo on Friday to create an online poster designed for the demonstrations, which he called "Walk Like An Egyptian." Others have placed photographs and videos, music, and published reports on international television networks. Egypt, state media have so far offered little coverage of the protests.
Another example of how the digital age has changed everything: dozens of high quality images of the event was sent to an online photo site Flickr parties - although there is no danger if the authorities decide to trace the leader of the protest .
online activists - usually young and often multilingual professionals - have also been quick to find ways of tackling the disruption of social media sites, with links to sites that offer free downloads. One message said: "Users of Nokia in Egypt, the use and application Snaptu Twitter and Facebook will never happen."
People have also used the sites are called proxy servers, which allow users to surf the internet almost anonymously and provide access to banned sites running the server host. The same procedure was used when the site Wikileaks was taken from Amazon's servers in the United States.
But anyone trying to disrupt Internet traffic in Egypt, with some success. On Tuesday, a site called Ustream broadcast showing a flow of events in downtown Cairo. But the current was a few hours later, replaced by a message saying: "The servers are available - can be blocked in Egypt," And if given the volume of traffic or hinder efforts to mass media, many in Egypt lamented the lack of access to Facebook and Twitter Thursday.
TE Data, an Internet provider that says it supplies 70% of Internet infrastructure in Egypt, tweeted Monday he was not arrested. But one customer said Thursday he had called the company to complain about traffic disruption to know that the servers were "under repair". It was also tweets - unconfirmed - BlackBerry Messenger Service, BBM will be shut down.
Anonymous on American group is also involved in September Wikileaks has supported the protest movement in Egypt. Its activists to run computer programs that have been designated flood sites required until the crash. Anonymous on Wednesday, activists attempted to disrupt the Egyptian Ministry of Transport and Communications and technology of the site.
It would be misleading to suggest, however, that until this week, social media had no role in Egypt. A few brave blogger Kareem Amer (recently released from prison after serving a sentence of four years for "defaming the President and to disseminate information to public disorder") has long been a thorn in the government of Mubarak. Amer is blogging again this week in the city of Alexandria, advise the President that it was time to leave.
Curiously, one of the first indications of the power Twitter from Egypt. In April 2008, an American journalist James Karl Buck and his translator detained while covering an anti-government demonstration. Buck has managed to send a tweet in a word while being brought to the police. He simply said "stopped". Within seconds, friends and supporters abreast of his situation and has worked for his release. Buck was able to send the prison until - less than 24 hours later - he was able to tweet "free."
Despite efforts to combat Twitter, Facebook and other sites (the government denies its responsibility), a Facebook page dedicated to the events planned for Friday was more than 80,000 followers are fourteen ET Thursday, compared with nearly 20,000 yesterday.
After comments Twitter with hash tags # # # type Jan25 Cairo and Suez generates an enormous stream of tweets. There is a breath enthusiasm about the many issues that are mostly in Arabic, French and English, but there are also dozens of rumors, very inventive and a lot of exaggeration.
Sifting the wheat from the chaff, for the extraordinary amount of traffic, is a full-time job. A typical recording overrated on a Facebook page Thursday read: ".. Live ammunition was fired on protesters ... Innocent demonstrators who want their basic rights are massacred" There is so much misinformation more information.
Egyptian demonstrators "so quickly"
Egyptian demonstrators online
Elsewhere
* Egypt
Protests and demonstrations *
* Facebook Inc.
* Twitter Inc.
But social media can help suppliers clue about developments in places that can not reach. For example, it is difficult (and risky) survey of foreign journalists in the city of Suez, which seems to have seen the worst violence in recent days. But a constant tweets and blog posts, photos and mobile video solutions, has at least a little 'orientation in a rapidly evolving situation there. All the land of Egypt, even if one of the big media organizations can not be everywhere, especially when the security forces, throwing up roadblocks.
As events have had (so far) little formal organization, social media becomes an essential tool for organizing appointments. An entry from Twitter, for example, called for March 1 at 3:00 Thursday at Giza, a suburb of Cairo. Second Wednesday calling people to Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Of course, there is a weakness of these methods - because the authorities can read, and a myriad of these rallying cries can be confusing.
In any event, social media can be passed as an organizing tool Friday - Egyptian mosques. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is influential in thousands of mosques throughout the country, called for protests after Friday prayers. But the Brotherhood is a game of catch-up movement has made little impact so far.
social media is also a source of practical advice for those on the street. Tweeter advised people to wash his face, tear gas, warning people to avoid using contact lenses during the protests. "Spit, blow your nose, rinse mouth, gargle. No eyes inside out with his head tilted to one side," said the tweet.
The mere size of an online "business" - and has grown rapidly - is breathtaking. Hashtags # Jan25 began to "trends in the world" on Thursday, producing dozens of Twitter tweets and retweet minute intervals. When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Cairo late Thursday, retweet went into overdrive with a lot of advice from him.
A Facebook page dedicated to the memory of a young man allegedly beaten to death by police in Alexandria - "We all said Khaled" - has exploded to over 20,000 fans. It includes drawings, photographs and videos and messages of solidarity across the Arab world and beyond. An entry of Algeria as follows: "People in Algeria with you" (sic).
There have been some creative creations on Facebook and a blog, too. An activist used the dramatic pictures of riots in Cairo on Friday to create an online poster designed for the demonstrations, which he called "Walk Like An Egyptian." Others have placed photographs and videos, music, and published reports on international television networks. Egypt, state media have so far offered little coverage of the protests.
Another example of how the digital age has changed everything: dozens of high quality images of the event was sent to an online photo site Flickr parties - although there is no danger if the authorities decide to trace the leader of the protest .
online activists - usually young and often multilingual professionals - have also been quick to find ways of tackling the disruption of social media sites, with links to sites that offer free downloads. One message said: "Users of Nokia in Egypt, the use and application Snaptu Twitter and Facebook will never happen."
People have also used the sites are called proxy servers, which allow users to surf the internet almost anonymously and provide access to banned sites running the server host. The same procedure was used when the site Wikileaks was taken from Amazon's servers in the United States.
But anyone trying to disrupt Internet traffic in Egypt, with some success. On Tuesday, a site called Ustream broadcast showing a flow of events in downtown Cairo. But the current was a few hours later, replaced by a message saying: "The servers are available - can be blocked in Egypt," And if given the volume of traffic or hinder efforts to mass media, many in Egypt lamented the lack of access to Facebook and Twitter Thursday.
TE Data, an Internet provider that says it supplies 70% of Internet infrastructure in Egypt, tweeted Monday he was not arrested. But one customer said Thursday he had called the company to complain about traffic disruption to know that the servers were "under repair". It was also tweets - unconfirmed - BlackBerry Messenger Service, BBM will be shut down.
Anonymous on American group is also involved in September Wikileaks has supported the protest movement in Egypt. Its activists to run computer programs that have been designated flood sites required until the crash. Anonymous on Wednesday, activists attempted to disrupt the Egyptian Ministry of Transport and Communications and technology of the site.
It would be misleading to suggest, however, that until this week, social media had no role in Egypt. A few brave blogger Kareem Amer (recently released from prison after serving a sentence of four years for "defaming the President and to disseminate information to public disorder") has long been a thorn in the government of Mubarak. Amer is blogging again this week in the city of Alexandria, advise the President that it was time to leave.
Curiously, one of the first indications of the power Twitter from Egypt. In April 2008, an American journalist James Karl Buck and his translator detained while covering an anti-government demonstration. Buck has managed to send a tweet in a word while being brought to the police. He simply said "stopped". Within seconds, friends and supporters abreast of his situation and has worked for his release. Buck was able to send the prison until - less than 24 hours later - he was able to tweet "free."