Closed captioning of: #Egypt: Staunching the flow of social media
>>>
we mentioned
social media
, the role it has played in this crisis. first to twitter, and you can look over my shoulder. this is a
live feed
of all twitter feeds that have to do with
egypt
. this is actually a bit slower than realtime and gives you an idea of the volume on the subject of the uprising in
egypt
. all of them scrolling by from different users, different individuals. and yet, one of the
british newspapers
today put together a graph of
internet service
in
egypt
over the past few days and watch it just fall off a cliff, when in effect presumably through the internet carriers, the nation of
egypt
stopped
internet service
. but people are resourceful and they find a way to communicate with the outside
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