Twitter Wars: Egypt

I think we are all pretty aware of how social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, have been used by the Egyptian people in order to help organize this revolution – can we call it a civil war yet – not only to trade information and organize within Egypt, but to help get information out of Egypt on the situations within Egypt.

I read today that pro-Mubarak forces are now using the Vodafone networks in order to send text messages to the Egyptian people, promoting the continuation of the Mubarak regime. The war over the hearts and minds of the Egyptian people is begin fought on every level, from the actual physical protests to propaganda about the current regime on their social networks. The government uses peoples social network streams in order to finger dissidents as well, and put them under house arrest, removing their access to the internet.

They say that the revolution will be televised, this may be the first ever revolution also fought over Twitter.