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Social Media Blocked In Your Country? Email Keeps The News Flowing

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Rich Pearson to The Official Posterous Posterous

Social media's role in the Tunisian revolt has been well documented. The contributors to a Posterous site, 24sur24.posterous.com, were responsible for sharing many of the most powerful videos of the street uprisings.

With Twitter and Facebook now shut down in Egypt to quell government protests, email is the only reliable sharing platform left.

Same story in China. If you're living or traveling there, email posting via Posterous Sites or Groups is the only way to get videos and photos to your Posterous site and reposted to Twitter and Facebook.

Sharing information to people in a country that blocks social media is also difficult. Posterous solves this problem by delivering the full content of your posts via email to your subscribers. This means that anyone with access to an email account can read your posts, even within a blocked country.