Google helps Egyptians leave Twitter messages via mobile phone

In a move to help people in Egypt stay connected to other world and be heard Google has launched a special Twitter service, as the government has banned all Internet connections.

"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate blog on Monday.

Google says the service was developed in association with engineers from Twitter to allow people to dial a telephone number and leave a voicemail. The voicemail is automatically translated into an audio file message that is sent on Twitter using the identifying tag #egypt, Google said.

Google said in the blog post, titled "Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard," that no Internet connection is needed to use the service.

It listed three phone numbers for people to call to use the service.

Google listed the following numbers for people to use the service: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855.