“'And the number is growing,' he said, raising his voice to be heard on the recording.” That's the start of a NYTimes post about how Egyptians are using a new social media service to take down a 30-year-old dictactorship. “Egyptian voices are trickling out through a new service that evades attempts by the authorities ...There is still some cellphone service, so a new social-media link that marries Google, Twitter and SayNow, a voice-based social media platform, gives Egyptians three phone numbers to call and leave a message, which is then posted on the Internet as a recorded Twitter message” that people listen to on phone or read at twitter.com/speak2tweet.
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