Google, Twitter and voice-messaging service SayNow have teamed up to give people in Egypt the ability to tweet about events in the country, simply by leaving a voicemail on an international phone number.
Egypt, which is currently in the grip of mass anti-government protests that have left 60 to 100 people dead, has been forcefully taken offline. Since 27 January, all major ISPs in the country have shut down their internet networks by order of the government, making it tough for citizens to rally together or contact people outside the country.
Now, Twitter and Google's service, named Speak2Tweet, "will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard," expains SayNow co-founder, Ujjwal Singh. SayNow was acquired by Google last month.
Egypt, which is currently in the grip of mass anti-government protests that have left 60 to 100 people dead, has been forcefully taken offline. Since 27 January, all major ISPs in the country have shut down their internet networks by order of the government, making it tough for citizens to rally together or contact people outside the country.
Now, Twitter and Google's service, named Speak2Tweet, "will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard," expains SayNow co-founder, Ujjwal Singh. SayNow was acquired by Google last month.
People in Egypt can leave a voicemail on one of three international numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855), and the message is automatically turned into a sound file, uploaded to SayNow's servers and published on the Twitter feed, complete with a hashtag denoting where the call originated from.
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