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1 Feb 2011

Author:
Charles Arthur, Guardian [UK]

Google and Twitter launch service enabling Egyptians to tweet by phone

Google and Twitter have launched a service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by leaving a voicemail on a specific number...No internet connection is required. That will be important for users in Egypt after Noor Group, which had been the last internet service provider connecting to the outside world, went dark late on Monday. It had remained online after the country's four main internet providers – Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr – abruptly stopped shuttling internet traffic into and out of the country last Friday.

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