Especially For Egypt, Twitter access from Google Without Internet Connection

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. finally launched a special service that allows people in Egypt to send Twitter messages (tweets) them with contact telephone numbers and voice message broadcasting. Until now access the Internet continues to cut in the country, amid anti-government protests.

"Like many people, we have been struggling to broadcast news in Egypt and think about what we can do to help people on the ground,"read a message sent on the company's official blog on Monday (31 / 1).

Services that, according to Google, developed by engineers from Twitter, enabling people to a single telephone number and voice message broadcasting.

Voice messages are automatically translated into a message sent on Twitter by using the identifier # egypt, Google said.

Google said in a posting on his blog, entitled "Some weekend work That will of (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be Heard", that there is no need Internet connection to utilize these services.

Google lists three special phone numbers for those who wish to contact to take advantage of that service. Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook has become an important communication tool for protesters in Egypt.

What's New from The New Twitter

The new version of Twitter, which was named New Twitter has been announced to be launched. The change this time really is a big change. Twitter itself estimates that the new appearance of this new Twitter will be published a few weeks. The following new features leaked from New Twitter.

What's Happening box becomes narrower. Even by default there are no buttons Tweet. But it is good because it makes room for tweets become more liberal. Next to Nickname in the tweet of people will show his real name with the color gray.

You can share links photos from Flickr. Will appear on the right panel that displays thumbnails of the photos on Flickr album. Later when the image is opened, the slideshow will appear automatically. This feature is most attractive.

"." To do Refresh tweets. Currently, if there are new tweets will usually appear 14 new posts Home tweets below that must be clicked to open a new tweet. But this is made easier by simply pressing the ".". Twitter has also added another shortcut feature that the box can be opened with the "?".

New Twitter will change drastically in appearance. For general appearance can be seen on his own website NewTwitter. Or video can be seen here.