Google and Twitter hook up to allow Egyptians to Tweet

Google and Twitter hook up to allow Egyptians to Tweet: "

Over the weekend, the new Googlers at SayNow teamed up up with Twitter to build a Voice-to-tweet solution which could help

Google purchased SayNow last week. Instead of celebrating this weekend, the new Googlers (GOOG), with the help of their new colleagues and some folks at Twitter, put together an application that can convert a phone message into a tweet.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired
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.

It isn't clear how helpful this will be, many reports out of Egypt
have phone lines being cut as well, but these new Google employees
certainly are making a good first impression.

One of many new Google Ideas?

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