Friday, February 11, 2011

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Egypt, Mubarak, social networks and how a president

Egypt and the downfall of President Mubarak. A social revolution 2.0


After three weeks of protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo , Egypt, there was the resignation Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak . This is the result of ongoing protests in both the African country and the rest of the world, through the social networks .

For five days, the government blocked Internet service users Egypt, which were affected telecommunications. This act would have cost $ 90 million, however, the Revolution 2.0 passed over political control. According

Twitter, the word " Mubarak" is repeated 55 times per second, the term " Egypt" was repeated 47 times per second and the phrase "Free Egypt" was repeated 25 times per second. Other hashtags or common keywords were " Jan25", "Cairo ", " Freedom" and "Belive " among others. It is now a "topic of the moment" the phrase Congrats Egypt (by clicking you can see the tweets now.)

One of the key pieces of this movement on the Internet was Wael Ghonim , CEO of Google who created a Facebook page with the title "We are all Khaled Said," to support an activist who was beaten to death by police in Ciudad Portuaria de Alejandra .





Mubarak, 82 and second Arab leader to be toppled by a popular revolt in a month in the region (the first was that of Tunisia), handed over power to the armed forces after the unprecedented protests against poverty, corruption and repression, in which was supported during his tenure.

Vice President Omar Suleiman said a military council, will take over the most populous Arab nation until September, when they were promised free presidential elections . The president "has decided to resign from his position as president," said Suleiman on TV public, adding that Mubarak instructed the Higher Military Council to administer the affairs in the "difficult circumstances the country is going through."



Meanwhile, the president of the United States , Barack Obama said today that the world has witnessed a truly historic moment after the resignation of the Egyptian president, noting that his country stands ready to provide necessary assistance to the transition to democracy.

"The Egyptians have inspired us," Obama said today, Friday, February 11, in the White House. Mubarak handed over power to the armed forces to meet the demands of protesters filled the streets for 18 days demanding the end of his three decades in government.

added that the departure of head of state Hosni Mubarak is "not the end of the transition, but its start in Egypt, a country that" will never be the same, "warning that the process will not be easy and there are still "difficult days ahead."

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