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And im not really worried because as i said, i trust 80 million egyptians. >> the question i had was first tunisia, now egypt. whats next? >> ask facebook. >> ask what? >> facebook. >> facebook. >> facebook. you are giving facebook a lot of credit for this? >> yeah, for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one day and thank him. >> tell him why you think mark zuckerberg and facebook helped get people in tunisia and egypt and presumably other countries in the not too distant future -- >> im not t...

Over. the same thing happened in the russian revolution, happened in iran. the phrase the revolution devours its children is an old one, and we all have to do everything we possibly can to work with the forces of stability and change in a democratic and law-abiding direction in egypt to help them economically, to help them politically and see to it that this does not become an islamist operation the way iran has and gaza has and im afraid lebanon may be on the way to being. >> when you heard wae...

Dont worry. i wouldnt be surprised. youll let us know how that conversation goes. lets go to i think were going to go to ivan watson. hes over at the presidential palace. excuse me, arwa damon. shes in tahrir square. lets go to arwa first and check in with ivan in a few moments. arwa, set the scene for us, do me a favor when youre there. i want to hear from the crowd. take a moment and lets hear what the folks are saying. >> first of all, this scene is something completely unimaginable, the ambi...

Tahrir square in the heart of cairo. thats where we find our own arwa damon right now. arwa? >> reporter: jim, i cannot even begin to describe the atmosphere here. the crowd has gone absolutely insane! hysterical with enjoyment, chanting god is great, chanting we are egyptians. jim, this is the unthinkable that has been accomplished here. demonstrations that began over facebook and twitter taking on a life of their own, brings down one of the best-known dictators in the middle east, a man who he...

Of egyptians started corroborating content. you know, like we would post a video on facebook. it would be shared by 50,000 people on the wall within a few hours. we -- you know, i always said that if you want to liberate us, get on the internet. if you want to have a free society, just go on the internet. the reason why is the internet is like help you, you know, help you fight the media war which is basically a war, the egyptian government, egyptian regime playing very well in 1979 to 1990 and ...

A rally proposed for by the two leading opposition leaders, irans hard-line leadership was quick to object to it and warn everybody not to come out so its going to be very interesting to see what happens on monday. will the events in cairo tonight spark a comeback in the streets of tehran on monday? if it does, if irans green movement makes a comeback on monday, theres going to be very little doubt that it had a lot to do with the events in egypt tonight. >> yeah, those dominos are beginning to ...

Some of these movements. >> they may be beginning to be. i know people who for years now have been trying to get them to help get the right types of equipment and software into places like iran in order to take advantage of peoples desire for freedom. we should have been doing exactly what has happened in egypt. we should have been trying to help foster that in iran and help set up servers, protect their facebook, protect their tritter, everything, and we really have not, but this is a good step...

Happened on the very day that about 15 different privacy and consumer rights groups were in washington asking the ftc to review the most latest privacy move of facebook. facebook is allowing people to share with all their friends what tair looking at and buying online. just like the like button you can click. you can like something, a store, a shop, a product and thats something that privacy experts are concerned that maybe theyre going a little too far. so the irony of both of those things happ...

Watching me ♪ try your facebook friend as you have a private chat, maybe as you chat with your lover or talk smack about another facebook friend, or maybe your boss. thanks to a glitch all your friends can see your private talks. awkward. christine romans is here. its not the first glitch for facebook, right? >> no. no, it isnt. its embarrassing. i dont know if its more embear ags for the person saying something bad about their best friend or for faceback with a privacy glitch. >> i know. th...

What circumstances and says this glitch has been picked, but essentially what this was, if you were in the preview my profile feature, you could see these private chats between friends and that is something that is a little unnerving to people who are having more and more communication on these sites. keep in mind there are 400 million people using facebook. 130 friends on average a piece. theyre sharing several pieces of information a month and you think that is private, but at least for a spel...