Do you think social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter played a key role in the Egyptian protests?

Weekly Question: Do you think social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter played a key role in the Egyptian protests?

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February 7, 2011

8 Comments → “Do you think social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter played a key role in the Egyptian protests?”

Ben Adam Shemang

7:39 pm

Feb 07, 2011

Face book and twitter helped much not just in the case of Egypt, is did in Tunisia.
Remember these countries are just like police states…living under bondage.
I always liken the two countries with that George Owell’s novel entittled: 1984.
Read it before? Ant way, back to the issue, facebook and twitter know no limits, no boundries their messages reached the target audiences as intended.
The result is the revolution which you hardly could trace to one leader, yet, very effective in mass mobilization.
The two social networks forced the government of Egypt to disrupt internet services to hinder further coordination of protesters.
I ask my own question: for how long will Hosni Mubarak continue to hide hehind his finger?
Facebook and twitter will always identify and expose him. It has been proved already.

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Romano

7:40 pm

Feb 07, 2011

Of course not. You find in Facebook many blablabla, something valuable in Twitter but in general no. This movement is a labour one. Mubarak (a clever guy) is only the goat of this story nonetheless he is a bandit.

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Annat

8:46 pm

Feb 07, 2011

I believe social media played a very significant role in the Egyptian uprising. As did the Arab Sattalite channels. Better informed about what is happening around the world and what they really can aspire to young Egyptians want better lives.

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angelo

8:21 am

Feb 08, 2011

Let’s start from the beginning: How is it possible that a 30 year long dictatorship didn’t realize , at all, what might have happened in Egypt? And how is it that the powerful Mossad was caught( it seems, once again!) unprepared to the events? Only the people on Facebook knew? Come on? Let’s be serious….And there is another question which tortures me….why Tunisia, why Egypt (remember Obama : ” Mubarak has to go NOW….”) and not another African dictatorship (say : Zimbabwe). And why not Iran. Thus : Facebook is the fig leaf behind which new US interests are being displayed against the will of people.
And that is something that has to be addressed. Because on which moral principles a dictatorship is bad and others are not? Oh, and remember…I am a friend of the US meaning that I am not as a great majority of Europeans anti-American (for info: ask the German or French).
Angelo.

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judi shaw

11:09 am

Feb 08, 2011

Egypt has remained rather “hidden” unless you have “on the ground” contacts there. Facebook means that if you can get e-mail access local people have been able to express their view from where they live. It by-passed the control of any bias press reporters may have who hide truths of suffering and persecution, joblessness or harassment. Conversely we can get too much information on these sights which can cause confusion. So it is a bit of a mix.

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Michael Frame

12:39 pm

Feb 08, 2011

It is a no brainer that they played a role. In just the same way that both networks’ majority of anally retentive and naive users have played a key role in the vilification of Israel and in the current and all time high levels of global anti-Jewish sentiment and opinion.

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Frank Adam

1:53 pm

Feb 08, 2011

We must now write to our elected representatives and foreign ministries in a polite TOLD YOU SO tone that Palestine has always been a side show to keep Arab peoples off the backs of Arab rulers and to side slip all foreign complaints about Arab government.

Egypt prooves this because the crowds are asking for bread, jobs and liberty just as in the French & Russian revolutions and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. My parents lived through 1918 as teenagers and witnessed as much.

further whoever is to be in charge of Egypt’s government – even the clerical fascists of the MBros will have to face up to the need to buy half the staple grain suppply in the World market ie North America so they will have to keep in with the USA.

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Nelson D'Silva

1:15 am

Sep 06, 2011

Certainly not. This whole fiasco was orchestrated by the Brits and the French who used the social media as an excuse for what they were doing to Egypt. These two nations have not acted in the interest of democracy. They have instead created an ideal situation for the formation of an Islamic Republic under the Muslim Brotherhood. End result: even more ruthless dictatorship.

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