{"id":13139,"date":"2010-04-08T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:36:54","slug":"egyptian-opposition-and-kyrgystan-overthrow-in-progress-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13139","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian opposition and Kyrgystan overthrow &#8220;in progress&#8221; on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyrgyz (non-colored) Revolution &#8211; In Progress and Being Twittered<br \/>\nThe Monkey Cage | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2010\/04\/kyrgyz_noncolored_revolution_i.html\">Joshua Tucker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So no sooner had I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2010\/04\/a_new_twittered_revolution.html\">Erik\u2019s  post<\/a> about the use of Twitter among the Egyptian opposition did I  see breaking news about a potential government takeover (takedown?  overthrow?) in Kyrgyzstan (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/07\/kyrgyzstan.emergency.riots\/index.html?hpt=T1\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_KYRGYZSTAN_PROTEST?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2010-04-07-15-31-20\">here<\/a>).   As the events were in progress, my next instinct was to go to Twitter  to see if I could get more information in real time.  Sure enough <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23Kyrgyzstan\">#Kyrgyzstan<\/a> is up  and running, with what looks to be 3-5 posts coming in per minute.  (There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23freekg\">#freekg<\/a>,  which seems to have more Russian posts, and thus may be a better source  for on the ground information).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2010\/04\/kyrgyz_noncolored_revolution_i.html\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyz (non-colored) Revolution &#8211; In Progress and Being Twittered The Monkey Cage | Joshua Tucker So no sooner had I finished reading Erik\u2019s post about the use of Twitter among the Egyptian opposition did I see breaking news about a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3pV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}