back on Twitter

As “DrZamalek”

I got sick of both Facebook and Twitter at around the same time in the first half of 2010, and pulled out of both.

What brought me back to Facebook was simply the January Egyptian Revolution. The information I wanted, such as photos of the dead, was best obtained via Facebook from my Egyptian friends.

Now I have to go back on Twitter because of what’s happening in Egypt. I’ve found that all of the live feeds, including al-Jazeera, are maddeningly slow.

The best way to keep abreast of developments in Egypt is to do searches on Twitter for #Tahrir, #MohamedMahmoud, and so forth. But of course you have to be cautious, because there’s a lot of misinformation, a lot of people who seem to be eyewitnesses who are actually just repeating rumors they heard, and so forth. Nonetheless, it’s the best raw source of real-time information, so I have to go back into the fray.