Google has set up a service where Egyptians can send Twitter messages

Google has set up a service where Egyptians can send Twitter messages by leaving a voicemail on an international number. Google says: "The service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialling the same phone numbers... We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there."

Numbers for Google's voicemail tweeting service

+16504194196
+390662207294
+97316199855

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-weekend-work-that-will-hopefully.html

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

1/31/2011 02:27:00 PMLike many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.