Egypt has been saturated in the news lately. First the run-off elections have the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi claiming victory over Ahmed Shafik. Then the ruling army council or SCAF took dissolved the Parliment and have given powers to the military. Now demonstrators led be these same Parliment members are leading and holding protests in the streets of the capital. Egypt's politics are getting more uneasy by the day.
Meanwhile former President Hosni Mubarak was reported to have died, then later conflicting accounts surfaced that he did not die but was in a state of coma. Obviously with these conflicting stories incoming tweets on Twitter may give us the first real accurate news about the health of Hosni Mubarak's health and condition.
Here are several top Egypt news related Twitter accounts and hashtags to follow as this story continues to develop.
@DailyNewsEgypt: the official Twitter account of the dailynewsegypt.com with over 103,000 followers and 15,000 tweets to the date of this post. Latest tweet states Mubarak clinically dead.
EgyFeeds: tweeting the latest news from Egypt and the Arab world with over 46,000 followers and an astonishing almost 700,000 tweets. The Mubarak story is really being tweeted almost several times an hour. There are conflicting tweets that Mubarak is clinically dead or on life support.
@Zeinobia: Twitter account of an Egyptian blog with over 59,000 followers and over 130,000 tweets to the date of this post. Tweeting about different sources to this story. One thing is for sure Mubarak is either clinically dead or in serious life ending condition.
@AJELive: this is the breaking news and alert updates from the Al Jazeera English Twitter feed with over 230,00o followers and 16,000 tweets. Latest tweet is concerned with the health of Mubarak with a link to an article
@AJEnglish: this is the official verified Al Jazeera English Twitter account with over 1.8 million followers and 64,000 tweets.
@EgyIndependent: tweets independent news from Egypt with over 95,000 followers and over 21,000 tweets.
Hosni Mubarak Trending Hashtags on Twitter
These 4 hashtags seem to give you the best information on tweets from people all over the world regarding their thoughts on the Hosni Mubarak story:
#hosnimubarak
#Mubarak
#egypt
#hosni
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