Speak2Tweet Helping Syrians Stay Connected During Crisis

Just when you think Twitter is turning evil, something happens to remind you that the microblogging platform really isn’t so bad at the heart of it.

Twitter and the Google Monster joined forces last year during the riots in Egypt and developed a speak-to-tweet service. And that service is coming in handy this year for Syrians facing an Internet blackout.

The Next Web reports the “Middle Eastern country ‘went black’ yesterday when an estimated 90 percent of Internet connections in the country were cut.”

According

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