The Tweets Must Flow!

wired.com — In the midst of another ‘revolution’ it finds itself associated with, Twitter is reminding the world that it’s a medium, not a messenger. Egypt has cut off the internet in an attempt to complicate demonstrations sweeping the nation in an attempt to bring down the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak. This time, individual internet services weren’t targeted — just the entire internet itself. Still, the #jan25 movement is a fact, and enough of one apparently for co-founder Biz Stone and General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray to praise Twitter’s commitment to free expression and to reinforce its fundamental neutrality. The post does not mention Egypt specifically, which is not surprising since Twitter, for a change, hasn’t been singled out by a repressive regime. Jan 29, 2011 View in Crawl 4