Anti-government protests are going in the Egypt for the last three days. Twitter and Facebook reported disruptions of their sites in Egypt.

Facebook’s Spokesman said yesterday, “We are aware of reports of disruption to service and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning. You may want to visit Herdict.org, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that offers insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility”.

Herdict.org displayed 459 inaccessible and 621 accessible sites in Egypt. The Global PR account of Twitter reported on Herdict.org, “Egypt continues to block Twitter & has greatly diminished traffic. However, some users are using apps/proxies to successfully tweet.” In the meanwhile, several outages are reported at the World Wide Web.

From San Francisco, Danny O’Brien, Internet Advocacy Coordinator for ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’ informed NANOG (North America Network Operators’ Group) email list that their committee had completely lost Internet connectivity with organizations’ members in Egypt. Major broadband ISPs accounted loss of Internet connectivity. There were also reports for loss of mobile service and SMS outages in major cities of Egypt.

He wrote, “The working assumption here is that the Egyptian government has made the decision to shut down all external, and perhaps internal electronic communication as a reaction to the ongoing protests in that country”. Danny also included a link to Pastebin.com in his post, which displayed a report from an European-based Internet Activist guiding Egypt protestors to use alternative methods like pirate radio and shortwave to connect with each other and with outside world.

Associated Press also highlighted, “Egypt-major service provider, Italy-based Seabone reported on Friday that no Internet traffic is going out or coming in Egypt after 12:30AM local time. The AP reporters located in Cairo also experienced outages”.

RIM BlackBerry declared in a statement that it did not figure out any changes or interruption to their service in Egypt and said to contact the respective service providers for any information on BlackBerry outages.

Internet disruption in Egypt spurred activist action. The group, who released distributed denial of service attacks on Websites opposing WikiLeaks, launched an online video threatening Egyptian Government to set DOS attacks on its Websites if it did not remove censorship efforts disrupting the Internet. Five persons were found connected with those attacks and arrested in the United Kingdom earlier yesterday.

Twitter was found to be an efficient communication medium in protests and unrest in Moldova, Iran, Tunisia, and now in Egypt. Therefore, Twitter is being a target of Governments to ban with Facebook.