Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Egyptian Behind #Jan25: ?Twitter Is A Very Important Tool For Protesters?

Social media's role in the Egyptian revolution has been picked apart, but what do people in Egypt think about it? Meet Alyouka, the 21-year-old Egyptian who was the first person to Tweet out the #Jan25 hashtag which, along with #Egypt, became a rallying cry and loose way to organize communications around and about the protests. Twitter found Alyouka (no last name given) and asked her to write a post about her experience with social media on its hope140 blog. "Twitter is a very important tool for protesters," she writes. While she credits Facebook with being amore important organizing tool, Twitter was the communications tool of choice among a "certain class of activists . . . armed with smartphones." She explains how the protesters used Twitter:

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sevIuC5irwE/

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