Facebook for Android Updated

 The Facebook app for Android gets an update today morning. Its easier to access groups and pages with this update. The alerts are faster they say, I havent tested with the alerts yet but hope they come in time and on time.

You can use the applications connected with your profile and facebook and also play your favorite games on your Android handset :D This is cool right.

One new thing which I really liked is the ease of viewing the recent most posts from your buddies and family. It was awkward before to just see the highlighted posts which were the most happening ones and not the recent ones. This new update has got the solution to is.. See the image below..

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Facebook for Android Updated

 The Facebook app for Android gets an update today morning. Its easier to access groups and pages with this update. The alerts are faster they say, I havent tested with the alerts yet but hope they come in time and on time.

You can use the applications connected with your profile and facebook and also play your favorite games on your Android handset :D This is cool right.

One new thing which I really liked is the ease of viewing the recent most posts from your buddies and family. It was awkward before to just see the highlighted posts which were the most happening ones and not the recent ones. This new update has got the solution to is.. See the image below..

Like me on FB @ Android Bubble

Facebook for Android gets an Update

Facebook for Android smartphones gets a facelift with better Looks, Speed, Better UI and something totally Different and new. They say that apps for Android are old models and cannot compete with the Apple apps for twitter and facebook. Who would say it after getting their hands on the totally new and rocking upgrades.

The upgrade is given the version 1.8.0.
As soon as its updated, you can opt to view a small tour which gives you a lil' info about what it is.

The pic you see below is the menu. You get all that you want from your profile to the friends list to the groups you are in and the pages you have liked. There is a search bar on the top of the menu which allows you to search for anything like people, pages, groups etc with ease.

There are three icons on the top as visible in the pic below. The first one shows if you have any new friend requests, the second one directs you to messages and the third one is for the notifications. Now the interesting part is the way these are made. Sweet. Just click on any one of them and you get a small window which shows the latest things like the requests, notifications and messages which opens on top of your original page. So you wont have to go back looking for where you were before you went to the notifications page. Look at the screenshot below.

 The facebook app has always been slow on usual 2G networks but this one beats all the critics of Facebook app for Android. Try it to feel it.


Catch me on Facebook

Facebook for Android gets an Update

Facebook for Android smartphones gets a facelift with better Looks, Speed, Better UI and something totally Different and new. They say that apps for Android are old models and cannot compete with the Apple apps for twitter and facebook. Who would say it after getting their hands on the totally new and rocking upgrades.

The upgrade is given the version 1.8.0.
As soon as its updated, you can opt to view a small tour which gives you a lil' info about what it is.

The pic you see below is the menu. You get all that you want from your profile to the friends list to the groups you are in and the pages you have liked. There is a search bar on the top of the menu which allows you to search for anything like people, pages, groups etc with ease.

There are three icons on the top as visible in the pic below. The first one shows if you have any new friend requests, the second one directs you to messages and the third one is for the notifications. Now the interesting part is the way these are made. Sweet. Just click on any one of them and you get a small window which shows the latest things like the requests, notifications and messages which opens on top of your original page. So you wont have to go back looking for where you were before you went to the notifications page. Look at the screenshot below.

 The facebook app has always been slow on usual 2G networks but this one beats all the critics of Facebook app for Android. Try it to feel it.


Catch me on Facebook

UK seems prepared to crack down on social networks regardless of evidence

"Johnny Melfah is said to have posted several messages on a group that had been set up called “Letz start a riot”, encouraging people to riot in Worcester.

Yesterday the chairman of the bench at Worcester magistrates’ court decided to lift restrictions on identification, deeming it in the public interest, despite the teenager not having entered a plea.

A week ago the Crown Prosecution Service issued guidance to prosecutors to ask courts to “lift the anonymity of a youth defendant when they believe it is required in the public interest that the youth be identified”.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that she wanted as many of the young criminals involved in the riots as possible to be identified. More than 1,400 people have now appeared in court charged with riot-related offences."

UK riots: 16-year-old accused of inciting riot on Facebook loses anonymity - Telegraph

'via Blog this'

So the courts have spoken, not only will they treat posting to social networks as equal to actual disorder and violence offence, but they seem determined to make it even worse. All part of a pattern of crack downs on social networks in the west.

But is this real or just scapegoating. During the Arab Spring many people questioned the degree to which social networks like Twitter and Facebook were really making things happen. The very different paths of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria prove that history and culture are larger factors than technology in shaping the modern age.

The London riots were a feast for analysis firms like our own to understand tweeting role in social events, a recent study has confirmed what we assumed from our own work, that twitter was responding not leading the protest.

"A preliminary study of a database of riot-related tweets, compiled by the Guardian, appears to show Twitter was mainly used to react to riots and looting.



Timing trends drawn from the data question the assumption that Twitter played a widespread role in inciting the violence in advance, an accusation also levelled at the rival social networks Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger."

Twitter study casts doubts on ministers' post-riots plan | UK news | The Guardian

'via Blog this'

So if the evidence is clearly against social networks impacting criminality why are governments willing to crack down and kill the messenger? We see several key factors:

• The public clearly believes that social networks are the problem and the government is just following public opinion.
• Governments don't really understand social networks and are afraid of the chaotic element they add to social discourse.
• Governments don't like the idea that everyone can publish content and want to set up strict enforced limits to what is allowed, even in democratic societies.

Hate Groups on Facebook

Facebook Group Islam is of the Devil raises serious questions about how well the massively successful site is taking its moral responsibility.

When Murdoch tells his full site of the recent News of the World collapse you can be certain he will say that he did not know about the phone hacking that took place. Murdoch will claim that basic ethical lapses happened beyond the high level managements view. We may never know if this is true or not. But it seems that Facebook is content to institutionalize allowing the law to be broken on its site out of ignorance.

Though many hate groups on Facebook are hard to discover when the site involved uses a name like Islam is of the Devil one would image a simply search algorithm would find it quickly. Perhaps Facebook has not bothered to put this level of filtering in place. Though we support free speech as much as anyone Facebook is bound by the laws of the United States at the very least. Targeting a religion for attack is a hate crime and not only violates Facebook's ToS but the laws of the United States and California.

Social Networks need to take their duty to users and the law more seriously. Just as recent event in Egypt have shown the power of Facebook as a social movement tool, the certain reaction of hatred and violence must be dealt with. The ball is solidly in Facebook's court right now, can they tolerate digging deeper in to their profits to provide a safe and legal environment?

Will Google+ be the Windows 95 of cloud living?

Google+ looks good enough to beat Facebook and other social networking websites, MySpace co-founder and ex-president Tom Anderson has suggested.

Anderson has left a message on his new Google+ page at 10:55 a.m. (edited 11:37 a.m.) today, expressing his thoughts on the new Google social network and how it is “primed to make good on that original premise – that everything gets better when [it’s] social.”

Google+ will beat Facebook, says MySpace founder Tom Anderson - International Business Times

Well it is a bit soon to write off Facebook. Also Google has had a legacy of failed social networks including Buzz and Wave. The Hype around Wave a bit over a year ago was pretty massive.

Wave had a long waiting list and millions of people lined up to get a hold of it. IT magazines were full of Wave and I even had people tell me that SharePoint was Microsoft's Wave at one point.

So one should assume Google+ will fail before it will take off. Certainly the reviews to date have been rave, but so have the reviews for Windows 7 mobile. We know about the value of a rave, having written some rave reviews of the features of Nokia recent phones.

But Android teaches that Google is able of really big wins in this space. Google+ with Android might offer what Facebook can't: a solid mobile social experience. Despite twitters recent growth this is still, in our opinion, a wide open goal with people still willing to test new social platforms.

But Google+ has to offer something more than just a replacement to Facebook. Key features we would to Google+ to provide:

• A strong mobile experience that does more than just provide web site in mobile but provides a mobile appropriate experience.
• A bridge between garden fenced community with social networks and access to the larger more interesting bigger web. Today this is done with using Facebook with Twitter and YouTube. Facebook's main weakness is the information quickly looks inbreed very quickly. Google+ should provide social networks without the social incest problem.
• Overcome Facebook's technology limitations.
• A true customer/focused focused product. The biggest killer we have seen to date with social networks is that they become high school, and the customer service treats people like high school. They tend to treat you like cattle and blow lots of PR BS in your face if you have a problem. As yet a truly engaged social network that has the community features of a Wikipedia or Blogosphere do not exist in this space. In short maybe Google can support the level of engagement people get in truly crowd sourced solutions. Google should return to its "don't be evil" values and find a way to make money without limiting the community formation and free expression of users. Google+ should be about the people on it and not about Google. This is where MySpace and Facebook have fallen down badly.
• Media quality, Google has the ability to support image sharing (via Picasa), video sharing (via YouTube) and IM (Google Chat) along with email and search to provide all the basic features for a read write web. Blogger, YouTube, GMail are well established industry standards in Web 2.0 and they should be able to defeat Facebook's limited capacity as a photo and video sharing site.

In short everything is in place for Google+ to take off. The demand is there and we sense people are starting to get tired of Facebook. Google has strong technology around search, blogging, messaging, communication, video sharing and image sharing that can make a first class online experience. Google+ needs to place a social center to Google's product set, and then have a bit of good luck.

The end of Free Facebook

A pro Gaddafi site on Facebook, the combination of state terror and social networks has suddenly made Facebook a very unsafe place for Arab reformers.

Now that regimes all over the world are aware of Social Media the balance of power has moved to their advantage. For a poorly policed site like Facebook the combination of Social Networks and a Terror State will quickly neutralize any democratic aspirations on the that Facebook might have fostered.

We saw it first in Bahrain this development in Bahrain. Bahrain was one of the first regimes in the Arab world to take its battle against its own people to Twitter and Facebook. With Gaddafi joining the war on Social Media, Facebook is no longer a safe place for Arab reformers. Gaddafi is adding a new twisted strategy in their war on Facebook. Gaddafi supporters are identifying Libyans, many who live in the west, on Facebook pages and threatening them.

Given Gaddafi's record of terror and killing, even beyond his own border these sites on Facebook are deeply disturbing. But even more disturbing is the face Facebook is not doing enough to police this area, not even taking down sites with considerable twitter attention like this one. Hundreds of people have complained about this page, maybe even more. But Facebook system of policing activity seems unable to respond to a site that contains:

1. Creditable threats of violence,
2. Harassment of specific people,
3. Attacks on women and homophobic attacks,
4. And even IP violation using photos without permission.

It is pretty clear that Facebook's entire history is a series of unintended accidents. Its success has been more a combination of random factors than any strength of the product. And its role in Arab Revolts was also clearly an unintended accident. Sadly Facebook own blindness may soon have very serious negative consequences.

Libya Facebook page supporting violence against women

MISSON ACCOMPLISHED: After days of ranting and a report to the local FBI on our part Facebook has finally taken down the site that was identifying Libyan women and threatening them. The site, like a few others was developed by Gaddafi supporters. Gaddafi's thugs are taking their war of threats, murder and rape to Facebook.

If you believed that Facebook was helping Arab freedom movements this article will probably convince you otherwise.

The site names women who have stood up to the regime, and calls for them to be murdered

There is an arabic Facebook group called قائمة الخونة وعملاء الجرذان معا لفضحهم Which can be translated as a 'list exposing agents of the rats'. The list is a pro-Gaddafi group who find images of Libyan women, and one gay man we saw, who oppose who support democracy. It seems that Gaddafi's strategy of rape has been extended to Facebook.

Though the site is in Arabic its intentions are pretty obvious even without a Google Translate

This shows two very ugly things about social networks. First the ability to motivate crowds opens risks of cyber threats and potentially mob intimidation of people. But perhaps worse is that 48 hours ago we reported this site, which openly calls for violence to Facebook from the site. We also read about the site first on Twitter, among people trying to bring the site down.

Facebooks US contact phone number is 001 (650) 543 4800. They have a special line for law enforcement. If you can contact someone in law enforcement who suspects that their citizens are being targeted by this grew please have them contact the number above. Otherwise please follow this link and file a report. Use the report page link on the page to do so, Or you can contact the regional FBI at this email: san.francisco@ic.fbi.gov .about this site. The FBI has acknowledged our complaint, but nothing from Facebook and, not surprisingly, nothing from our voice message.

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Hopefully more exposure will bring the site down. We strongly believe in free speech, but free speech does not include threats directed at specific people, especially based on their gender or sexual orientation.

UPDATE: It is hard to express how pissed off we are getting at Facebook right now. We are in the third day running this story and we know thousands of people have seen it from our blog alone. We also know of people working with Libyan rebels trying to get the site taken down.

And yet the site, which violates US, EU and UN law and treaty remains. Frankly the content of this site is so disturbing we would imagine an ISP could potentially face arrests for hosting such a site. It identifies women who support democracy in Bahrain, many living in the west, and subjects them to abuse and threats. Given Gaddafi's use of rape as a weapon in his own country this is a very serious issue.

When people talk about Facebook having a role in recent protest movements in the Arab world correct them: people in the Arab world used Facebook without Facebook management knowing it. Facebook itself is morally neutral at best.

The use of Facebook as a tool to add opposition to regimes can not be imagined as somehow being a part of Facebook or its goals but as a strategic appropriation of the tool that Facebook's developers never could have imagined and would almost certainly not have liked.

Facebook group, End Censorship: End Super Injunctions

Protecting the privileged. Facebook group starts active campaign against the use of super-injunctions

This group actively opposes the use of super injunctions. These are essentially a UK phenomenon, but they have universal implications for freedom of expression and open justice.

A super injunction, also know as a double gagging order, prohibits a news entity from publishing a story, while further prohibiting publication of the fact that an injunction has been granted.

Because publication of any information about the order is prohibited, it is impossible to know how many are in force or what is affected.

They have become a form of censorship, administered by the middle ranks of the judiciary in total secrecy.

There have recently been two scandalous uses of the instrument.

Trafigura was granted a super injunction to block reports of its illegal dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast, one of the poorest West African states.

This case particularly shows the international effect of super injunctions, as once the story came out in Britain it was quickly reported worldwide.

Read more on the facebook site here:

Whats your Geosocial? The Geosocial Universe and Geosocial Networking

Introduction to Geosocial Web

"This infographic, created by Jesse Thomas of digital creative agency Jess3, shows the relative size of social networks and on-line services such as Skype, Gmail, MySpace, Twitter and Foursquare, and also shows the proportion of their user base that access the service via a mobile device. Jess3 has also done a number of other creative visualizations of digital services, including the “Conversation Prism” in collaboration with Brian Solis."

"Graph created by Jesse Thomas of digital creative agency Jess3

Geosocial Networking is a type of social networking in which geographic services and capabilitiessuch as geocoding and geotagging are used to enable additional social dynamics. User-submitted location data or geolocationtechniques can allow social networks to connect and coordinate users with local people or events that match their interests. Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration. For mobile social networks, texted location information or mobile phone tracking can enable location-based services to enrich social networking."

Source wikipedia, read more here:

Graph created by Jesse Thomas of digital creative agency Jess3

What is Clima: Crowd Sourcing for the Geospatial, check it out before you check in

Track the levels of Web 3.0 adoption for any location on Earth with Clima

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Clima Tweeter Meter Facebook App

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This tool from our Web Lab tells you the overall level of tweeting for any given location in the world. It provides context to the geo-social network. Most current geosocial sites provide location for your friends and social contacts. But one of the great features, or terrible features, of space is that it can be crowded. Sometimes we seek out crowds, like when we want to meet people on a Friday night or participate in a protest. Other times we want to avoid crowds, like when we and some other new parents are meeting for a coffee after a week isolated with our terrible twos. By looking at the overall level of Web 3.0 activity at a location we provide data about the social conditions in a space. People can see if a place is hot and busy (say with a score of 90 or above) or quite and laid back (with say a score of 15)


By looking at the intensity and frequency of geo-tagged tweets we can gauge the "crowdedness" of an area. Now be warned, different people of different ages groups and social background tweet differently. Don't expect a convention of WWII veterans to be producing a lot of tweets. Also a rave full of teens is likely to produce a lot more tweets than a normal high street. But the tool will give you, on average, a sense for where the larger community social activity is located in space. Look for high scores over 80 in big cities and over 60 in smaller cities and developing countries to find locations of heavy social activity.


The Clima suite of tools aims to move the social above the social graph in to a measure of social climate in space. This gives you a way of engaging with a larger community of stranger who you socially collaborate with every day, when you create a crowd or event. Clima aims to provide for geosocial what Wikipedia did for content: finding a way to learn from the wisdom of crowds.


Rather than having to rely on your own network for friends Clima lets you survey the global community to see what places people decide to visit. Each person tweeting from a location is similar to a like in Facebook. It is a vote for a location and using Clima you can count these votes.

Bahrain: A revolt ignored by much of the world turns to Social Media

Bahrain has become the forgotten Arab revolt. Though you can't blame the press for concentrating more on Libya, Egypt and now Syria, sadly Bahrain has been forgotten in large measure because it does not fit in to the stereotype stories the mass media knows how to tell. Certainly there is a young pro-democracy movement like in Egypt, but the west also has a story about Shia Muslims being a threat to democracy and stability. In Bahrain the west has been stuck in its own inability to decide which media myth is taking place, and the discourse around Bahrain has had to retreat to social media.

Just watching the hashtage #Bahrain is an eye opener. The discussion is always packed and the hostility of the two camps is very disturbing. Bahrain is evolving in to more of a civil rights movement than a nation revolution for democracy. As such it could become very tribal, the government supporters are trying very hard to make the issue Tribal. The danger is this could become something of a civil war, though a Libya like situation is most likely impossible.

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HOPE smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be better~unk #iranelection #libya #bahrain #egypt#syria

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MohdZayani MohdZayani

تمزيق العلم السعودى ووضع علم حزب الله فوق السفاره السعوديه فى ايران

#Bahrain #Kuwait #KSA #Suadi #UAE

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AlBaHRaNi12 AlBaHRaNi

HELP BAHRAIN !! #Bahrain #Kuwait #Iraq #hrw #usa #uk #un#reb14 #revolution #BarackObama

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AlaAwaysheh Ala` Awaysheh

Winning the Battle, Losing the (Media) War: Hunger Strike Edition

Religion and Politics in Bahrain: Winning the Battle, Losing the (Media) War: Hunger Strike Edition

#Bahrain

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ahmedSM3 BU YOUSIF

Maryam Alkhawaja speaks to Secretary #Clinton at the US Islamic World Forum

#Bahrain #USA #Feb14 #Obama #UN #Lulu #Islam

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SalehAlbahrani Saleh Al-Bahrani

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@AmberLyon Thanks.. Thanks..Thanks..Thanks.. from all people in #Bahrain

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Fathe7hom Bahraini w Bas

شيماء ابراهيم حسن محمد - زينب السيد حسن شبر ماجد - أمينة عبدالجليل المعراج - بيان أيمن الخضر - أمينة ناصر السيد هاشم @Fathe7hum #Bahrain

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meshari_alsanad مشاري السند

مقالة اليوم...الأحوازأفقر شعب على أغنى أرض

كويت توداي

#kuwait #syria #bahrain

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utopiadreamers Utopia Dreamer

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@SasperEllla and I saw police smashing cars,firing tear gas at ppl at their sweet homes,attacking journalists&reporters....etc,etc #Bahrain

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_Safarific Safs

I'm counting the days till I arrive home!! NOTHING LEFT YA#BAHRAIN it's been 2 years!!!

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SasperEllla Luls Alkhy

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@utopiadreamers Thats your burden, U must SEEK the truth as I did. One things for sure its NOT on #CNN #BBC #SKYNEWS .#Bahrain

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Truthlesss Truthy

FACT IN Bahrain (6) : She is a DR & arrested

#sos #humanrights #USA #UK #freedom #CNN #BBC #14feb#bahrain

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Deertyalbahrain Mohammed

​​حليمة موالي وفيروز الحداد في مدرسة العروبة وقفوهم عن العمل #bahrain

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manamavoice1 صوت المنامة

#Bahrain البرلمان الأوروبي يدين مقتل اثنين من الناشطين في البحرين

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DER3_ALJAZEERA DR3 AL JAZEERA

أخوانا العرب السنه والشيعه بالأحواز العربيةالمحتلة بينتفضون بكره ادعوا لهم الله يوفقهم ويقويهم#bahrain #q8 #ksa #qatar #uae #egypt #jorden

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Haboosh95 Hiba saleem

أول لعبة عربية و برسومات خيال أصبحت متواجدة في الأمارات.

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#KSA #Bahrain #Syria

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sultan2277 sultan al Subaie

ليست القوة باكتشاف الحق بل بتباعه . #TwitterRace #humanrights #Iran#FOZ #kafi #ksa #kuw #kuwait #kwtweeps #soor5 #GCC#GUnity #Bahrain

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Fathe7hom Bahraini w Bas

مع العلم كل البنات هذولي متفوقات.. نرجو من وزارة التربية و التعليم منعهم من البعثات و المنح.. #Bahrain @Fathe7hum

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mohammed_riffa mohammed al-otaibi

Petition AGAINST the release of the insurgent : Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja Petition

Petition AGAINST the release of the insurgent : Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja #bahrain #feb14

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DrAljowder Dr Raed AL Jowder

نطالب القائد العسكري الشيخ خليفة بن أحمد بالايعاز للنائب العسكري بالمصادقة على كل قرارات الفصل حتى تكون نهائية #Bahrain

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alhumian mohammad

الشغل البولبسي بعد حضر التجول في البحرين لن يحدث اي تقدم!! محاسبه الافراد ياخذ منحنى ليس له نهايه

"I Am Willing to Give My Life": Bahraini Human Rights Activists Risk Lives to Protest U.S./Saudi-Backed Repression

#bahrain

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Jooja_A J-AKH

خروج مواكب العزاء فقط خلال التاسع والعاشر من شهر محرم. على كل مأتم يمتلك سيوفا تسليمها حالاً أو ستتم محاسبته وااااوو كلولولولولوشش #Bahrain

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No concessions to media as indiscriminate repression continues in pro-demo #Bahrain | Reporters Without Borders

No concessions to media as indiscriminate repression continues in countries with pro-democracy protests - Reporters Without Borders

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Barain's government in punking Twitter in what we call a Troll Bomb. The goal of the governments attack is to turn the web community tribal. As fragmented tribes it is much easier for them to continue to hold the ground and avoid reforms.

But the legitimate issues of Bahrain's Shia majority are so solid that the issue will not go away. Rather we are seeing it festering on Social Networks while much of the world tries to ignore a complex issue out of existence.

We anticipate that sooner or later the social network debate will go real world. Virtual communities crave to become real, and people on twitter and blogger will, in time, seek to re-take much of the streets.

Track Real Time Twitter Density for Bahrain
Clima Tweeter Meter Facebook App

We have been tracking Twitter from the ground in Bahrain, we are seeing fewer and fewer tweets giving their geo-location, a sure sign of anxiety about the crack down. But we still see surges following major news and anticipate future mass demonstrations which will raise twitter levels from the ground significantly.

Photo By Gail Orenstein web 3.0 lab/Clima. Young man making a video in front of the Bahrain Embassy, London.

UPDATE: It seems that even CNN is learning about the reality in Bahrain