How Google removed the muzzle on Twitter in Egypt. By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer Updated 2/4/2011 11:58:09 PM | SAN FRANCISCO — Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass government efforts to muzzle the massive protests there.
By Marcio Jose Sanchez, APGoogle employee Ujjwal Singh demonstrates the speak2tweet program, a service that lets people call a phone number and leave a message, then posts a link to the message to Twitter.