Egypt: Ayman Nour’s Stolen Mobile and False Tweet · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.
Ayman Nour, who was one of the candidates in the Egyptian presidential elections in 2005, reportedly sent the following tweet on Saturday, March 5, at about 3am:
One hour later, he sent a correction saying that his mobile was stolen, and that the tweet sent earlier wasn't his.
Snapshot of Ayman Nour's twitter account
Right after the first tweet, and before the second one, people on Twitter had mixed reactions.
Mahmoud Ibrahim, on the other hand, sees Nour's tweet as useless, since he has been put in jail and has no right in participating in the elections.
Some other tweeps didn't buy Nour's story. As he claimed that is mobile was stolen, yet the fake tweet was sent via Twitter's web interface.
This made Nour send another tweet clarifying [Ar] that both his blackberry and laptop were stolen.
Update, 18:00 PM: Ayman Nour has just deleted the previously mentioned tweets.
This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.