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Had their web traffic go dark all at once. it was eerie. all but one of egypts isps. one small isp in egypt is still up and ruining. the group services about 8% of the internet including several businesses and the american university in cairo and powers the stock exchange. on friday, when i tweeted a link to the egyptian stock exchange, the link i tweeted still worked even though the internet had supposedly gone dark and every other website for everything else in egypt was down. today they is sp...

Internet. they had all their web traffic go dark just about all at once. it was all by one of egypts isps. one small isp in egypt called the nor group. that one was still up and running. the nor group services about 1% of egypts internet including some businesses and the american university in cairo and powers the egyptian stock exchange. when i tweeted a link, the link i tweeted still worked. even though egypts internet had supposedly gone dark and just about every other website was down. well ...

They had all their web traffic go dark just about all at once. it was all by one of egypts isps. one small isp in egypt called the nor group. that one was still up and running. the nor group services about 1% of egypts internet including some businesses and the american university in cairo and powers the egyptian stock exchange. when i tweeted a link, the link i tweeted still worked. even though egypts internet had supposedly gone dark and just about every other website was down. well today, sus...

Based jourmist and news editor of the daily news in egypt. sarah, youve had an extraordinary day where youve been reporting to the world via twitter. >> yes, i only was able to do that when i got back to the office. we were lucky that we have the only isp thats working. so we have internet access. but others dont, and were trying to put the story out through getting information through landlines, and trying to relay them to the world. >> honestly, the government has shut down the internet. and i...

Background. what happened in egypt was that the four major internet service providers were effectively asked to shut down connectivity by a couple of different ways of doing that technically. so this was a collaboration. it just wasnt certainly the government doing it or just the isps doing it, but in the united states there is what many are calling a very wide sweeping, very broad cyber security bill. its actually called protecting cyber space as a national asset act, and this act is designed t...

Back now to talk about the chaos in egypt and the impact of social media. joining us by phone is a cairo based journalist and news editor of "the daily news" in egypt. sarah, youve had an extraordinary day where youve been basically reporting to the world via twitter. >> yes, i only was able to do that when i got back to the office. we were lucky that we have the only isp thats working. so we have internet access. but others dont, and were trying to put the story out through getting information ...

Moran dom. >> yeah, thats true. but what i worry with it being less organized, its much more difficult for people to really make their voices heard. it becomes random acts of violence rather than a coherent political message which i think is much more what its about. >> what would you say to hosni mubarak after turning off the internet? you know, what would you say to him in terms of what he should do going forward without regard to the politics of it or whether he should leave office, but in te...

Back now to talk about the chaos in egypt and the impact of social media. joining us by phone is a cairo based journalist and editor of "the daily news" in egypt. sarah, youve had an extraordinary day where youve been reporting to the world via twitter. >> yes, i only was able to do that when i got back to the office. we were lucky that we have the only isp thats working. so we have internet access. but others dont, and were trying to put the story out through getting information through landlin...

Much of that is down in country. >> its been fascinating trying to get information from our crews in egypt. theyre doing an amazing job. earlier in the day ben was using a very nontraditional way to get the information on to twitter. >> how? >> he was calling to the land line at the international desk, giving her the tweets. he was tweeting by proxy. she would type it into twitter and it couwould come out. we see more and more people encouraging this way to communicate. >> show me the tweet. thi...

Media networks that have been fueling these demonstrations. in cairo, cell phone services have been cut off since last night. vital organizing tools like twitter and facebook and messenger have had major interruptions. with me here, julian york is joining us from cambridge. jilian first to you, our own richard engel are reporting that we are beyond the initial stage of social media helping to unite and communicate these protests. now its out there. anyone can look out their window. so people don...