Friday, January 28, 2011

Egyptian Demonstrations: Best of the Tweets

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For today's blog post, search Twitter to find one Tweeter who is covering what's happening in Egypt. In your post, list the account's name, summarize their perspective on what's happening, and list any interesting details or breaking information.
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12 comments:

  1. Maria HernandezJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    On Twitter, I found one reporter who has a video of an Egyptian teen gunned down and its very disturbing since the violence has incremented from the protests.
    His name is Jason Calacanis and he posted this video: http://freq.ly/gCUZWt

    Their persepective on this is that they're giving full coverage of the situation and from what's happening, Egyptian protesters are trying to find any form necessary to let the world know what's happening. The question is why now? Why is this occuring all of a sudden? Who knows. The information that has been given out, Twitter has become a great tool but without it, its still given people motivation to show what is happening and connect with others.

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  2. Phi TatJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    I found a person name Jason Calacanis and he posted a video of a young person getting gunned down in public when he was protesting. Jason jsut showed the riot situation in Egypt right now, and he's trying to show to the world the how the situation is right now, and he's probably trying to ask for political intervention so the violence can end.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    I looked at ElFoulio twitter page and he has been reportung on what has been happening in Egypt his last tweet stated "Rumor that landlines will also be cut tomorrow, a7a" which is why tweeter might not be available anymore, he feels that cutting the internet and land lines is way too extreme and the citizens dont desrve this and it will greatly affect Egypt

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  4. RoseJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:32 PM

    I found a man name Ayman Mohyeldin who twitted that the football association in Egypt cancelled all there appearance and games this Friday. He also posted that the stock market in Egypt has lost 69 Billion dollars within the last 2 days. The question is how can the government take control over all this?

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  5. DorisJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:35 PM

    Ayman Mohyeldin have speak that nearly 100 police injured n clashes n #suez w protesters some critically injured & transferred 2 cairo hospital #jan25 interior min. He is describing what is happening in this moment.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM

    The Egyptian civilians are try to find a way to express there political believes about what has the government done. The Egyptian people has used social networks and the Ethernet to assemble and rally more support to protest. To retaliate at the issues the government has shut down the Ethernet to stop the riots.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    ACelesius RT @IanPJ: The internet is just a tool. A revolution is an idea, and the Egyptian government can't shut that down. #jan25 #egypt

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  8. Cindy MJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:54 PM

    i got a girl Well in this tweet she trys to get the young people to stand up and they somewhat agree with Obama to it’s up to them not the U.S to stop it.

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  9. salem kahsaiJanuary 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM

    http://www.cnn.com/video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_freevideo+%28RSS%3A+Video%29&utm_content=Twitter#/video/world/2011/01/28/jamjoom.newsroom.egypt.unrest.cnn
    This video show that how the military is attacking the civilians, and it also talks about that how the protesters are twitting it, which helps the rest of the world know what is going in Egypt since internet and Phone lines are down, but the people still look alternative ways to post things online so the rest of the world is aware of this issue.

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  10. AlejandroF.January 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    http://morphine507.tumblr.com/post/2980398757/theatlantic-the-associated-press-now-reports
    tumblr <= the twitter guy
    The picture show a can of tear gas with it saying MADE IN AMERICA in the bottom left. Accoriding to the discription Obama might change it's military aid towards Egypt in order to prevent hate towards them from Egyptian citizens.

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  11. RutJanuary 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM

    I found a guy called Hossam that has videos were in different times of a day protest happen, and also how and where the protest are going to take place.This guy writes in Aribic and is optimistic everytday has a tinking for the next day and for right now has around 5,578 followers

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    I have read multiple tweets from DannyRamadan and he is basicly a protestor/ reporter and has been tweeting atleast every 10 minutes. Danny basicly empasizes police officers regards for the people and their inhumane techniques. "Protesters are walking randomly in Garden City area. Sometimes they fight with any police officers they see and set things on fire." The people of egypt dnt care about the cops and are completely fed up with it.

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