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Reports: Internet Disruptions Hit Egypt

Elinor Mills writes on C|Net News:

Amid a third day of anti-government protests, Internet outages and disruptions were reported today in Egypt, according to reports.


Facebook and Twitter confirmed the reports for their sites.


"We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning," a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. "You may want to visit Herdict.org, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that offers insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility."


According to Herdict.org, there were 459 reports of inaccessible sites in Egypt and 621 reports of accessible sites.


Twitter's Global PR account reported on the site that: "Egypt continues to block Twitter & has greatly diminished traffic. However, some users are using apps/proxies to successfully tweet."


Meanwhile, there were numerous reports of outages around the Web.

posted by Fergie @ 1/27/2011 06:41:00 PM