Tweet By Phone

Google and Twitter have teamed up to help the Egyptian populace spread news on the Internet, despite the country shutting down all of its Internet traffic this week. They set up a service to allow tweets to be posted with the tag #egypt by calling a certain set of phone numbers; essentially, anyone with access to voice communication also has access to post on the Internet.

Kudos to everyone involved. As I read once, the Internet will interpret censorship as damage, and route around it.

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