The eRevolution - Social Networking and Media Revolution in Egypt - 0 views
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brilliantly leveraged the power of social networking tools to overthrow a corrupt regime
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acebook, twitter and blogs were all used to mobilize people all over Egypt. The 30-year dictatorship regime of Mubarak was overthrown in 18 days of peaceful demonstrations.
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group of young activists on Facebook calling for nationwide demonstrations to restore people’s dignity and ask for reform, freedom and social justice.
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different Facebook groups,
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We are all Khalid Saed”
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Facebook group that attracted about 80,000 participants,
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communicating heavily on twitter
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Khaled Saed is a young Egyptian who is widely believed to have been murdered by police.
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Other Facebook groups were initiated before, during, and after Jan 25th, 2011 to support the logistics and the massive demonstrations that erupted all over Egypt.
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Rasd News Network (R.N.N)” Facebook group was one of the main contributors to the revolution,
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protest updates, news updates and politicians and media reaction.
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evening of Friday Jan 28th, and in another desperate move to stop the massive flood of people into the streets, the Egyptian regime shutdown all Internet access in Egypt
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he large number of the group posts, user comments, message exchanges, and clear human mobilization were more than enough to indicate the kind and size of protests that would take place later on the 25th.
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members of the Egyptian regime had a serious generation gap with the young generation of social networkers.
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average age of the Egyptian Facebook activists was in the 20s,
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gime members were in their 60s and 70s and ruled by an 83 years old president.
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regime, therefore, was seriously under-qualified to fight a battle it didn’t even comprehend or to even form proper decisions in handling the situation.
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government IT workers were mainly hired based on “loyalty” and nepotism, not based on qualifications.
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he regime with a limited mindset thought that blocking twitter, SMS services and later Facebook access, would cut the communication lines between protestors and the movement organizers.
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third party proxies, the young organizers didn’t take long to figure out ways to bypass the Egyptian Internet filters and to be able to once again access Facebook, twitter, YouTube and other Internet sites.
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On the afternoon of Jan 28th, local officials extended their tactics to include cutting all cell phone communication in major cities in Egypt, thinking that this would curb the growing support and flooding of people into the streets of Egypt.
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revolution started virtually on Facebook
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protesters were already in the streets, flyers were already printed and being handed over to people,
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revolution was forming rapidly.
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The Tahrir Square (or Liberation Square) became the central gathering point for protestors in Cairo
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Google in the meantime launched a new service called “speak2tweet”, which allowed Egyptians to call a regular landline number in Cairo and speak their tweet to an IVR/Voice recognition system. The speak2tweet system would then convert the caller voice message into a text tweet.
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receive faxes through regular landline phones,
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Egyptians found another way to access the Internet through old school landlines dial-up Internet services and fax services.
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F acebook, twitter and blogs were all used to mobilize people all over Egypt. The 30-year dictatorship regime of Mubarak was overthrown in 18 days of peaceful demonstrations.
