#Jan25 : A Real New Hope

The voice of the Egyptian people was never louder. In fact, people have been silenced for years and years just to think in opposition to the ruling regime. (January 25, 2011) will be remembered as a historic day for all Egyptian. That morning, the country seemed so quiet. Not the serene sort of quiet.. It all started peacefully and without leaders. Three Million individuals choosing hope instead of fear and braving death on hourly basis to keep their dream of freedom alive. Everyone knew, in the bottom of hid heart, that the 25th of January would be something special, and by God, it was.
That what I have seen by my own eyes and heard by my own ears. If millions were at their homes , other millions , real millions took the streets across the country. It started with Facebook invitation and other Social Media like Twitter. The cry of the people on social media was getting serious attention more and more to be ignored by the international community. Social media has played an incredible role in this revolution in Egypt. So let’s have a quick look at some random statistics:

Google Results for "Jan 25 Egypt":

• 122 Million (Everything)
  
• 31 Million Images
  
• 9,440 Videos
  

Twitter Hashtags #:
(Stats reflect tweets from the 28th of January till the 3nd of February)

• #Egypt: 39,687 tweets, 19,943 contributors, 5,669.6 tweets per day, 63.5% are retweets
  
• #25jan: 72,881 tweets, 22,747 contributors, 10,411.6 tweets per day, 74.9% are retweets
  

Youtube search results for:

• Jan 25 Egypt: 6,450 videos
  
• Egyptian revolution 2011: 7,310
• Popular Video “The Most AMAZING video on the internet #Egypt #jan25” Views: 1,683,071 / Likes: 20,825 / Comments: 10,978
  

Some Dedicated Twitter Accounts:

• @25Egypt: 4,394 Followers, 233 Following, 3,242 Tweets, Created: Sun, Jan 23, 2011
  
• @Jan25voices: 7,809 Followers, 13 Following, 927 Tweets, Created: Fri, Jan 28, 2011
  

Some Dedicated Facebook Pages:

• R.N.N: Likes 395,422 / Links 114,974 / Videos 59 / Photos +21,000
  
• كلنا خالد سعيد: Likes 574,183 / Links 2,026 / Videos 61 / Photos 968
  
• Egypt Revolution Videos: Likes 2,046 / Videos 390 / Photos 34
  
• Egypt 25 Jan: Likes 15,687 / Links 1,075 / Videos 21 / Photos 692
  
• Egypt’s Protests 25-Jan-2011: Likes 3,257 / Links 857 / Photos 183
  

On Monday, (January 27, 2011) after one day of complete communication blackout at Egypt, Google announced that anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196, +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt without internet connection."
No wonder they were very keen in shutting down all internet communication (Five days with out internet access resulted in a loss of more than $90 million). Really these figures are scary. You can run, but you can’t hide! You Can't Silence FREEDOM "Think About It!"

Chirp!

In January 2010, nearly 75 million people visited Twitter according to comScore. When people started talking about twitter, the first thing they would always mention was the 140-character limit on tweets, "Who can say anything in only 140-character!". It could be a challenge when a person starts writing tweets and keeping it just 140-characters. You actually have to think a bit about how to force your thoughts to fit the format, but by the time you can adapt and 140-characters starts to seem long. Your tweets becomes shorter and uses the full 140-characters it becomes kind of annoying "I am going to cancel this tweet it's so long".
Unlike other social media Facebook for example, Twitter very simple to connect with people who are interesting, I would actually stop going to facebook, I might check it once or twice a week, sometimes feel it is offers me nothing more than twitter. Maybe my twitter following list seem to be few but really I don't like crowd friends! I wish more of my friends use twitter as well, I had explained to them How twitter was on the cutting edge but I guess they didn’t see it :(
Yes, may be twitter is not so much about the information and useful links but if you ask anyone who uses twitter on a regular will tell you that the power of twitter is that its ability to connect you to other people.
Some people think that twitter is silly and not interesting, they consider it a waste of time!! but really I don't think so,

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! you too? I thought I was the only one" Lewis