Posted on 02/01/2011 9:33:35 PM PST by FromLori
Google, in response to the Internet blockade in Egypt, said 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 specializing 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.
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interfering in another nation is suddenly a cool thing
deja vu 1996 bulletin boards
Does this mean in the run up to our elections that Google, Twitter and Facebook will all be helping Obama and the Rats get elected? Plus Wikileaks filtering leaks to release what they want..Is the tech world becoming an arm of the USG and the Rat party?
You get it.
One has to wonder would google to the same for U.S. population? I still got my land line.
“One has to wonder would google to the same for U.S. population? I still got my land line.”
I am glad you pointed that out we still have our land line too but I was thinking of getting rid of it now I will rethink that. Google is a big supporter of obama and somehow I doubt they would.
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