History in RealTime: @tedfriedman on 2/11/11 (in chronological order)

 

 

SalmaCNN Salma Abdelaziz In an incredibly tense moment Egyptians use their famous humor to lighten the mood and find out #ReasonsMubarakIsLate #jan25 hyperlocavore Liz McLellan RT @mmflint: RT @Johnfygelsang If somebody can find a shirtless pic of Mubarak on Cairo Craigslist this thing will end peacefully today mattyglesias mattyglesias Mubarak really looks great for his age. He could probably make a bundle selling lifestyle advice books. joshtpm Josh Marshall weird 2 see how prominent leader of national uprising in ME country has active twitter account @ElBaradei #thingsthathappenin21stcentury vagabond85 Daniel Gilmore @tedfriedman Slavoj Zizek weighs in on #Egypt http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/feb/10/egypt-miracle-tahrir-square?CMP=twt_fd wyclef Wyclef Jean If u on the streets of Egypt tweet me!! Imma retweet the movement on the ground!!! #egypt monasosh monasosh The least the world could do for Egyptians now is allow us free entrance to any country wtout the burden of applying for a visa #Jan25 hyperlocavore Liz McLellan RT @mhegi: Uninstalling dictator COMPLETE – installing now: egypt 2.0: █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ #egypt #jan25 #tahrir monasosh monasosh Unbelievable the metro driver is cheering wt the horn, ppl are dancing & screaming in the metro station #Jan25 pourmecoffee pourmecoffee Perhaps what people of Egypt did will give courage to Katie Holmes. SalmaCNN Salma Abdelaziz BREAKING: Switzerland freezes suspected Mubarak Financial Assets monasosh monasosh For everyone taking the metro home, mark out “mubarak” from metrostations plan & replace it wt “martyrs” #Jan25 walterkirn walter kirn Now Egypt has done for modern civilization what it did for ancient civ. I’m calling this Osiris Friday. thesadredearth the sad red earth RT @nytimes: Photos: Celebration in #Egypt After Mubarak Steps Down http://nyti.ms/fLbBJ3 #Jan25 //Historic images. acarvin Andy Carvin RT @NicRobertsonCNN: this is most euphoric young crowd I have seen sinced overthrow of Ceauşescu during 1989 Romanian Revolution ebertchicago Roger Ebert A letter to Egypt from a Filipino: Learn from us, and do better. http://bit.ly/hC1OZV heidiko44 Heide Kolb #Egypt: People helping #animals in the midst of a crisis- how you can help http://shar.es/3vAf0 via @femmekatz: @BFAS FrankConniff Frank Conniff What kind of crazy foreign policy allows a dictator to be deposed without a long & costly war? Get it together, Obama! anamariecox Ana Marie Cox Paul applause line: “We need to do a lot less a lot sooner, not only in Egypt but around the world.” #CPAC #unelectable #hasapoint wyclef Wyclef Jean The movement!! Let’s go!!! RT @Danzoxa: @wyclef PROUD TO BE EGYPTIAN!!! The streets are ALIVE with freedom!!! http://plixi.com/p/76480792 heidiko44 Heide Kolb R @UTSavage: @tololy #Yemen protesters under attack! Police use live ammo on demonstrators NOW. Please RT! monasosh I wish I could somehow save all of the tweets I sent and received the past weeks. This is my diary #Jan25 tedfriedman What can we all do to make help sure they’re archived? RT @monasosh I wish I could somehow save all of the tweets I sent and received.#Jan25. tedfriedman Students & scholars: this is history happening right now. Twitter didn’t cause this, but it’s part of a positive feedback loop. Take notes! If one was going to pick the medium with the most influence on #Egypt #Jan25, wonder if it would be SMS, web or satellite TV? tedfriedman My guess would be the most influential medium helping to create #Egypt #Jan25 has been satellite TV – specifically Al Jazeera. noelrk Noel Kirkpatrick But it all started with the telegraph. tedfriedman So if Al Jazeera is the NGO which has done the most to make #Egypt #Jan25 possible, credit not just the medium of sat TV, but the journalists. lockslocks Lakshmi Jagad Agree. tedfriedman Likewise, to the extent Twitter has helped accomplish this (hard to judge in the moment), credit not the medium in itself, but the tweeters. tedfriedman This is where I part ways with Object Oriented Ontology – I always want to look back to the human roots. Who’s karma’s on the line? acarvin Andy Carvin I’ve tweeted more than 600 times today. And yet people keep following me. What is wrong with you people?!? http://bit.ly/euxoo3

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