Nevine Zaki is a freelance copywriter based in Cairo
“I was never really into Twitter. For me it was an absurd idea, an entire social network devoted to… status updates? And with no ‘like’ button? What a blasphemy. But then I became fed up with all the events, the fan pages, the Farmville requests and the daily feed of personal information, so I turned to Twitter. Within no time, the ‘like’ button was replaced by the ‘RT’, and I was instantly on a one-on-one basis with people from the four corners of the world.
Fast forward to 25 January, the Egyptian revolution started, and by that time most of the information I was receiving was from all the young people on Twitter
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This reminded me of why we are all on this planet. To protect each other and let our brothers and sisters commune to their god in peace. Thank you for capturing this moment and sharing it with the rest of the world. It is healing, and wipes the clouds of ignorance and hate out of many minds.
Respect V.