Over the weekend, in the midst of the unprecedented internet communication blackout imposed by the Egyptian government, a new social media platform was born: speak2tweet, a voice messaging service that converts telephone messages to Twitter posts and allows Egyptians who still have phone service to get their messages out to the wider world.
The new service is a partnering between Google, SayNow (a voice-based social media platform that is owned by Google), and Twitter, and works by providing three telephone numbers that Egyptian callers can dial and where they can record voice messages to be converted to Twitter posts. For more details, here's the New York Times article.
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