I had a pretty amazing experience, last night, watching AlJazeera's coverage of the mind-boggling and sometimes heart-stopping events in Cairo, and monitoring Twitter (and yes, I contributed a bit, too) at the same time. I recorded this amazing, funny and scary, global stream of tweets, right before Hosni Mubarak was supposed to speak to the Egyptian people, at 10pm local time (in Cairo). Of course, he was late, so within 10 minutes, the hashtag #reasonsmubarakislate started to appear on Twitter and 10s of 1000s of tweets with some pretty funny, sometimes downright scary, and often insightful comments appeared.
To me, this event showed the amazing power of the Internet (and Twitter, in particular) to connect like-minded people and create something pretty amazing, on the fly, together, and for no commercial reason.
When Mubarak finally did appear, live on Egpytian TV, it was seriously disappointing, though. This tweet sums it up the best: Revolution 2.0 meets Dictator 1.0
I used Twitterfall.com to display the feed, btw, and ScreenFlow (on my Mac) to record it. You can watch the entire 19 minutes of the stream here, on my Youtube channel (and there are some more treasures there, for sure).
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