Vocal Tweets

by Chris Bodenner

Google's response to the new Internet blackout in Egypt:

Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet servicethe 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 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 ([phone] or [phone] or [phone]) 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.