How Users in Egypt Are Bypassing Twitter & Facebook Blocks. Update: Egypt's Internet is suffering major outages, the Associated Press is reporting.
A major Internet provider in the country is saying no Internet traffic is going in or out of the country. Protests in Egypt are expected to intensify with opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei's return to Cairo, and reports of Twitter and Facebook being blocked inside the country by Egyptian authorities continue to surface through the social networks themselves, and according to HerdictWeb.
Users are also reporting that SMS - short message service - is being blocked as well. Though it does appear that both Twitter and Facebook are still being blocked, many users are bypassing the blocks through proxy servers and third-party apps. Protests in Cairo: The Twitterverse Responds [STATS] The 662 people I follow on Twitter have been talking about little else besides the protests in Cairo Friday, which continue to escalate in intensity and violence.
They are not alone. According to data pulled from real-time analytics tool Trendrr, 245,000 tweets containing "Egypt" were sent between midnight and 1:30 p.m. today, January 28. L'Egypte intensifierait le blocage du Web, malgré les proxys.