What is going on in Egypt?

[DANC3R]

it's been trending on twitter [in Washington] for like the past four days + its on the news
i never fully caugt what was going on
i just saw something about cencorship && twitter is blocked in Egypt or something
someone help me please,,
umm i dont have any loved ones in Egypt
I juss dont like not knowing whats goin on lls.!

[alpla]

A revolution in progress.
Go to CNN.com.

[Rose.]

CAIRO – Egypt's most prominent democracy advocate took up a bullhorn Sunday and called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign, speaking to thousands of protesters who defied a curfew for a third night. Fighter jets streaked low overhead and police returned to the capital's streets — high-profile displays of authority over a situation spiraling out of control.

[ispalumni2002]

The reason they shut down the internet and phone systems is that they had hoped that this would hinder the protesters organization. People have been tweeting, and using social networking sites in order to get real time information and give real time information. This allows protesters the opportunity to effectively gather and get out information faster than we have ever seen in history. This poses a problem for President Hosni Mubarak and his attempt to maintain control of Egypt. So the short answer is they flipped the kill switch in hopes it would help stop the peaceful revolution of the people.

Not sure if this helps, I think it is shut off completely in case it does,

Egypt : To bypass government blocking of website names, use numerical IP addresses:
for twitter 128.242.240.52
for facebook 69.63.189.34
for google 72.14.204.99

My thoughts are with you ? I hope you can speak with your loved one soon.

[henry]

Revolution against Hosni Mubaraks 30 year dictatorship.

[King86]

watch Aljazeera Channel, English ..for free ..
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
if you wanna know the truth ..