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Google has teamed up with its newly acquired social-media-voice company, SayNow, and social network Twitter to set up a new service this weekend that enables Egyptians to tweet via voicemail, bypassing the country’s Internet sh…
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Google (GOOG) and Twitter have launched a phone service that will let people in Egypt send out tweets, even though the country’s Internet service has been effectively shut down.
Users will be able to call a phone number and leave a voice message, whi…