Egypt: Mubarak has changed her Facebook status to "It's complicated"

Written by Caramel L. Vaisman · Translate by Adriana Gutiérrez · View original post [en]

This post is part of special coverage of protests in Egypt 2011 .

To answer the question doubtful [en] by Malcolm Gladwell about whether Egypt needs Twitter, it seems that ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) played a major role in the revolution # jan25 in Egypt. Since the first demonstrations that were organized by young activists through Facebook, Egyptians refer to this generation of youth as "Facebook Youth." In this image tweet yesterday, the man thanked the youth of Egypt Facebook started this survey:

The twitterers report [in] that protesters in Tahrir are very aware of the power of Facebook and Twitter, and carried placards with the names of those sites.
It was also reported that Cairo is covered with graffiti from Facebook and Twitter. Some of these photos were published in the Washington Post yesterday [on].

Mike Nizza reports [in] that a protester approached a journalist in Cairo with a major concern, trying to figure out if Egypt is a trend in Twitter.

Egyptian activists and other Middle Eastern countries, have also used the language of social media as a means of humor to describe the events as they occurred. The most notable observations and retweetable were [en]:

I expel Mubarak of Egypt as Mayor Foursquare!

EXTRA: Hillary Clinton is no longer 'friends' of Hosni Mubarak on Facebook.

Mubarak Facebook changes its relationship with Egypt to "It's complicated"

Mubarak is retweetable Ben Ali, recalls that he wanted to stay until 2013?

Someone even asked [in] if there are any anti-Mubarak application available for the iPhone.

Moreover, at least three new false accounts appeared on Twitter Hosni Mubarak this week HosniMobarak @ @ @ TheReal_Mubarak NotHosniMubarak and also a false Gamal Mubarak - @ GMubarak.

These fakes maintained high morale in the conversation # jan25 of Twitter, even in the darkest hours of the fighting on Wednesday and Thursday, with tweets like [en]:

# Breakupexcuses [excuses breakup] Nope, I can not think of any. I want to stay with # Egypt for the rest of my life .

For sale: One government. Never used, but probably will not work .

I need help with damage control, @ SarahPalinUSA How did you get to ruin the U.S. policy?

Reports that pro # Mubarak demonstrators are paid by the government are false. By the way, someone can lend me money? I owe you some cash

A false Gamal Mubarak has also created an Obama-style cartel for his father:

Change is bad

Interestingly, the old account Mubarak false, @ presidenthosni, did not participate in the events of # jan25.

Finally, if you wonder how Egyptian bloggers and twitterers are upgrading from the plaza without having to charge the batteries from their phones, this image was tweet yesterday, showing makeshift phone recharge in Tahrir Square: