Google and Twitter have launched a service that circumvents the anathema on net services in Egypt.
The supposed speak-to-tweet network allows people held up in the disturbance to post messages without any must be use an internet connection.
The service, that is already live, allows people to dial an general write number and leave a voicemail message.
The summary is then sent out as a twitter with the hashtag #egypt.
People can attend to messages by dialling the same phone figures (+16504194196 , +390662207294, +97316199855) or going to a special Twitter page.
Google mentioned its engineers worked with Twitter and its newly acquired voice technology firm SayNow over the week end to set the service up.
"Like many people we've been glued to the headlines maturation in Egypt and considering of what you could do to help people on the ground," mentioned SayNow co-founder Ujjwal Singh on the authorized Google blog .
"We hope this will go a few way to assisting people in Egypt stay related at this really tough time," he added.
The final of Egypt's principal internet service providers, the Noor Group, became unreachable on Monday, according to reports.
The ISP had managed to stay online after Egypt's other large 4 net providers stopped sending and reception traffic on Friday.
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