Twitter has been involved with amazing geopolitical news and it has become widely popular around the world. It was nice to watch out that Mohamed Morsi has used this as a medium to regain his presidency even after his umemployment which was declared by the Egyptian military.
During his days of fall, he and his colleagues tweeted about the legality of the president’s takedown by Egypt’s military.
The official Egyptian presidency page has tweeted about Morsi, “For the sake of #Egypt and for historical accuracy, let’s call what is happening by its real name: Military coup.”
Another tweet was “Pres. Morsi urges civilians and military members to uphold the law & the Constitution not to accept that coup which turns #Egypt backwards.”
Typically, many of these tweets would be understandable only to those who read Arabic. However, Twitter began testing a Bing-powered English translation tool on Morsi’s and other prominent Egyptian’s accounts, so that users worldwide could understand what they were tweeting during these historic moments.
A Twitter spokesperson told CNET, “As part of our experiment with Tweet text translation, we’ve enabled translation for some of the most-followed accounts in Egypt, so people around the world can better understand and keep up with what’s happening there.”
Morsi is one among the notable list which includes the prominent opposition leaders Mohammed ElBaradei and Arab Spring activist Wael Ghonim.
Twitter has created a list of people who are actively tweeting what’s currently happening on the ground in Egypt.
Though the freshness of Twitter live-broadcasting news seems to have worn off a bit, it appears that new features like the translation tool can help keep the world’s breaking events fascinating on the social network.