Monday 5 September 2011

Egyptian Online Timeline

Kefaya Movement, 2007
Activists and bloggers begin to undertake early steps to change

April 6th2010 Youth Movement
Maximise use of blogs to counter state control of news




Arrested April 6th 2008 Ahmed Maher, co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, civil engineer and co-founderWaleedRashad, has a degree in commerce. Youth Movement protest in Alexandria where he and 14 members of the movement were arrested.

Tensions emerge too

January 18th Asmaa Mahfouz produces this rally video




January 22nd We are all Khaled Said page produced by Google Executive,Wael Ghonim http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk


February 2Twitter produces 'Speak to tweet' technology.
Protesters more efficiently post statements through this new Twitter technology
http://twitter.com/#!/speak2tweet

January 25th Egypt’s Day of Rage
Protest culminates in massive turnout, Tahrir Square, central Cairo

January 27thInternet is shut down

The Associated Press also confirms widespread Internet outages in Egypt..According to Resney’s, a US Internet monitoring company, Egypt's four main internet service providers cut off international access to their customers in a near simultaneous move at 2234 GMT on Thursday.





January 27th: Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger services are disrupted.



July-August 2011: Ongoing broadcast of Mubarak trials streamed on almasryalyoum.comand other sites


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