In the past Weeks we have witnessed how some people could move in Tunis and Cairo people around the world by sharing their opinions and experiences first hand with the world.
This is the reason why we wanted to investigate the source of the hashtags # Jan25, which was by the people of Egypt and later used far beyond Egypt to trace, and. The first tweet with the hash tag # Jan25 was sent by @ alya1989262. Behind the user name @ alya1989262 conceals a 21-year-old Egyptian student at the University of Cairo, the largest public university in the country. We have contacted her and asked them their user name use by the public to be able to. When we heard their story, we asked them also, even to be allowed to publish this ...
Although this course is to include the perspective of an individual within a network of millions of different opinions, it is instructive to know the people behind a hash tag ...
"I'm almost 22nd I live in Egypt since I was five years old (before I lived in France ). I've signed about two years ago on Twitter, but I have only in recent seven or eight months, started to use it intensively.
Twitter is a very important tool for protesters, which is also evident from the fact that it was locked with Facebook in Egypt again and again. We use it to the news of upcoming protests and protest sites to spread. Hashtags are an essential component to this information, including the 140-character comments quickly and efficiently to share with like-minded people, even if they do not personally you know. But the most important is for us to keep each other to acute, local events, such as police violence, threats, arrests, etc. on the date. Part of the activists is equipped with smart phones, which they allowed to tweet the protests live (such as Twitter, some of the songs, because these often funny and interesting). In the organizational field we use but rather Facebook. Twitter trends allow us to determine how visible we are the international community (this trend is set to feed the world and I know that many others have made in various places in the U.S.). It is very important that our voices are heard, that people outside of Egypt know what's going on here, especially because it always can lead to blackouts of cell phone networks and the Internet as last weekend.
Another issue that the government has recently sought a paltry and embarrassing (but not surprising) way to also use social networks. I've found some Twitter accounts with a few tweets and no more than five followers who tweet about how badly affect the protests on the stability of our country, is how great the president, etc. It is always the same tweets the same wording, which sent from different accounts be. Most propaganda of our state, however, spread from television, what affected the average Egyptians, unfortunately, far more convincing than a few young people in Internet. Therefore, we are planning right now how we can counter the government propaganda to us represents protesters as violent, "foreign beliefs" misguided young people who are no longer right mind and only want to harm their own country. We need the people in a connect dialogue, convinced of what they get on TV by the government, are. And the best way to do this is to use social networks to present our arguments a calm and logical meaningful way.
represents many years, the ruling party of Egypt, the local situation as a struggle between itself, the secular National Democratic Party, and the Muslim Brotherhood is, the left pushed the absence of a strong guide to the edge remained. We thought that we, the opposition, which has absolutely no identified with the Brotherhood, remains no other choice than to spiritual leader a la Obama to wait for us would inspire a revolution against the NDP . Tunisia has shown us, however, that a revolution is taking place without a strong leadership figure and strict organization and a dictatorial regime case may be. On 14 January, we began on the 25th to believe in January.
Returning to Twitter: the Tunisian revolution of the media reported to the escape of Ben Ali's difficult. We were the events by using the hashtags #
tunisia and # sidibouzid follow but already a month ago before he fled . I think this has strengthened our faith, what power each one of us has to bring about a change. "
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