Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard. 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. Egypt's Only Internet Provider Still In Service: Why Is Noor Online? Amidst the Internet blackout in Egypt that experts have deemed the "worst in Internet history," one service provider, the Noor Group, has been up and running nearly uninterrupted since the protests in Egypt began.
Why has the Noor Group, a smaller network provider that claims around 8% market share, continued to connect users to the Web while other Internet service providers, such as Etisalat Misr, Link Egypt, Telecom Egypt, and Raya have shut off connections? And how much longer can citizens count on it to stay online? Finding the answer means following the money. Noor's ongoing service may be linked to the high-profile businesses and key Egyptian economic institutions that it services. Cutting web access to Noor's customers could cripple the country's financial services industry and impose major economic losses.
"At this point, it's beyond rationality," Cowie said. We have contacted the Noor Group for comment. List of ad-hoc mesh network routing protocols that can be used during an "internet kill switch". : programming. Old technology finds role in Egyptian protests. 31 January 2011Last updated at 11:56 Mobiles have played their part in the ongoing protests in Egypt Fax machines, ham radio and dial-up modems are helping to avoid the net block imposed on Egypt. On 27 January, Egypt fell off the internet as virtually all international connections were cut following an order from the government. But older technologies proved their worth as net activists and protesters used them to get round the block.
Protesters are also circulating information about how to avoid communication controls inside Egypt. Call charge Dial-up modems are one of the most popular routes for Egyptians to get back online. Dial-up numbers featured heavily in Twitter messages tagged with hashes related to the protests such as #egypt and #jan25. ISPs in France, the US, Sweden, Spain and many other nations have set up pools of modems that will accept international calls to get information to and from protesters. Net access in Egypt has dropped almost to zero Internal aid.