Web-Free ‘Tweeting’ Brought To Egypt By Google

Web-Free ‘Tweeting’ Brought To Egypt By Google: "

It’s good to know the world won’t stop if the internet does. Well, as long as cellphone service is always available. Via The Strait Times:

GOOGLE, in response to the Internet blockade in Egypt, said on Monday that it had created a way to post messages to microblogging service Twitter by making telephone calls.

Google worked with Twitter and freshly acquired SayNow, a startup specialising in social online voice platforms, to make it possible for anyone to ‘tweet’ by leaving a message at any of three telephone numbers.

‘Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground,’ Google product manager Abdel-Karim Mardini and SayNow co-founder Ujjwal Singh said in a blog post.

‘Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service – the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection,’ they said.

[Continues at The Strait Times]

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