Picture by Ahmad347 [1] via Ms MoneyGirl [2]
It started with a wish…
@Sarahngb [4] – That Rainbow over Tahrir is close to a miracle! Let's hope another will follow… RT @justimage [5]: http://yfrog.com/h0jzngjj #jan25
Then a trickle of rumours:
@Sandmonkey [6] – This might end tonite, hussam badrawy just said mubarak is coming on TV tonite to answer the people's demands. Fingers crossed.
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This was seen by my dad on bbc. If anyone else saw hossam badrawy, let me know.
and by the time the army made “announcement number 1″ [7] on Egyptian State TV – Twitter had a major flood on its hands.
Some people greeted the cryptic army statement with a general WTF?? [8] but @SamihToukan [9] got it:
Army just made a useless announcement saying nothing … Whats most significant about Army announcement is not the announcement itself but fact that Mubarak was not chairing meeting.
And then the fat lady sang [10]:
Mission accomplished. Thanks to all the brave young Egyptians.
wrote @ghonim, Wael Ghonim [11], the formerly imprisoned Google manager and the revolution's celebrity.
But with the sunsetting [12] of Mubarak, the debate and speculation for the future begins:
@3arabawy disagrees with @gonim in a series of posts he wrote:
We didn't fight and sacrifice all of this, so as to have the army, which is ruling us from 1952, remains in power! … The Revolution must continue … very disappointed with @Ghonim's position.
@ManAbuTaleb [13] went further:
@ghonim said previously “someone like me with an MA degree shouldn't be treated like this” so its OK if one has lesser degree?
@ghonim doesn't speak for me … have you seen him on TV just now? @Ghonim is saying very naive things. Very disappointing. Now where's that unfollow button?
Sandmonkey has put together [14] his own suggestion for a political programme:
Now, I am not a leader of this movement, and god knows I would be loathe to name myself as a spokesperson for the 5 million individuals nationwide who have joined these protests. …
the status quo just won’t do. This lack of action and organization will be used against us (the protesters) in every way possible. … So here are my two cents
And he gives his program for the forming of a new political movement.
And on the Arabist blog Issandr El Amrani discusses the timetable for constitutional reform [15] and discusses various opinions about the future.
I will leave it there – whatever happens, by the time you read this, the world will have changed again! This is only the beginning Global Voices really ought to have a “revolution” tag.