Breaking: rumors on Twitter suggest Mubarak gone

[yellowcanine]

Source: Examiner

Today, my Twitter page is buzzing, especially around hash tags #Mubarak, #jan25 and #Egypt. Ten minutes ago, my eye caught a tweet from the UK Guardian's Ranj Alaaldin, which said that ' President Mubarak has apparently tendered his resignation according to a source'.

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Pretty tenuous but maybe, just maybe....

[Ian David]

1. It's true. Mubarak is at my house, crashed on my couch.

[gateley]

13. Pick his pockets. nt

[closeupready]

2. Tendered his resignation - to whom?

?

[BOG PERSON]

5. ...

[BOG PERSON]

3. twitter seems to be a dumping ground for disinformation n/t

[sufrommich]

8. Yep, very hard to cull the truth from the bullshit. nt

[EFerrari]

15. It gets easier as you learn who is on the ground or well connected

and gives consistently good reports.

[sufrommich]

18. I admit I haven't really been paying too much attention to tweets

and would have no idea who's tweets to trust.I go by who's tweets Al Jazeera reads.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Trust me a few intel agencies are following it

it is as raw intel as you can get without being there... granted signals intel, and you need to know how to separate the wheat... from the proverbial chaff.

Other uses in other countries... how to avoid checkpoints during that season in december

:-)

[sufrommich]

22. Oh, I don't doubt that many tweets are real and valuable. I just

don't have the knowledge to tell the difference.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. With Mexico I do... with this, I just follow

:-)

[EFerrari]

23. That's the smarter way to do it.

:)

[azurnoir]

4. the rumor I have heard is that he is holed up

in Sharm El Sheikh where he has a villa this makes sense in a way because it was announced yesterday that Israel had given Egypt permission to move 800 troops there, sounds like a guard detail to me. Sharm El Sheikh is located in Sinai and the peace accord does not allow Egypt to station troops there which is why Israel's permission was needed

[bigworld]

6. Or an arrest detail?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. No, presidential guard

Sharm is also 20 nautical miles, at most, from Saudi Arabia

[gateley]

14. Which you predicted days ago. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I get the general dynamics

the they had pro hosni people on the streets today is also part of it... as much as it may gall some people here... yes they are real, they are the losers, and they were few.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. On the other hand, they've also put up barbed wire around his palace in a Cairo suburb

ccording to Al Jazeera, military police installed barbed wire around Mubarak's palace in Heliopolis.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/01/world/main7304655.shtml

[justiceischeap]

7. The newest Twitter rumor from AJE is that he has stated he won't run again

in the next election, not that he is leaving now. Somehow I still don't think that will fly with the demonstrators.

[EFerrari]

20. Al Arabiya is reporting that.

They're a little quick on the trigger in some cases, imo, but we'll see soon enouh.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. If this is the case explains the pro hosni demonstrations

today...

sorry, they are part of the dynamic. Usually near the end.

My guess, because they always come... they are tried to see how shallow the support is.

[cbdo2007]

11. Here's a tweet saying Mubarak is going to be one of the new judges on American Idol...

#Mubarak #AmericanIdol #March12 @ ; Twitter Egypt cohost Seacrest out!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. OK, that I'd buy. nt

[RedCloud]

12. More Egypt panic! keep those oil prices rising!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. I don't think so. nt