A Special Twitter Service by Google in Egypt

As Internet connection was cut off due to the violent protests in Egypt, Google Inc. has just initiated a very very special service for Egyptians.


What they need to do is just to dial a phone number and leave a voice mail in order to send Twitter messages. You did not hear wrong. That is completely true. Google's official blog says: “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,” 


The service operates in that way; the user dials a phone number and leaves a voice mail. Later on, this voice mail is translated into audio file message and quickly sent to the Twitter. As no Internet connection is needed, Egyptian people will have much more opportunity to have their say. Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook played an important role in spreading the protests all around the country. So, internet connection has been cut off and phone text messaging has been disabled due to that fact. 


"What is Google doing is not taking side, but just supporting the access to the information." says a source familiar with the matter.