Google's Voice-to-Tweet Service

[HardOCP News]

Are you stuck in a country with no internet access? Do you really need to tweet something? If you answered "yes" to that question then you are in luck...Google has just launched a new Voice-to-Tweet service! Thanks to Terry O. for the linkage.

We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.

 

[Daifeichu]

Did you read this Egypt? Oh wait. They need a ...

 

[CommanderFrank]

Now the trick is to get the word out to all of the citizens of Egypt with no internet, now no cell phones (again) and state controlled TV. It was a good plan and my hat is off to those who busted their ass to make this happen, but I think for the million man rally tomorrow, it's just too late.

 

[Mad Cat]

Word is already out.

http://www.saynow.com/playMsg.html?ak=b1FveVRBQ2tyRlpWNjFMamJmRVZtUT09
http://twitter.com/speak2tweet

Now it will spread via word of mouth, so more and more people can tune in. It's already too late to contain it, unless the government (or what's left of it) can find a way to sabotage the tweets or block those phone numbers.

 

[Betaboy1983]

GET THE BOLT CUTTERS AND CUT OFF THE PHONE LINES!!! Sorry for the caps, but I had to do it.

 

[Fershlugg]

oh crap, twatting is becoming viral, or whatever the phrase of the day may be.