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Short And Tweet: The Top 12 Tweets Of The Week From The Fringe And Famous (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post     First Posted: 01/31/11 11:30 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:30 PM ET

Short and Tweet, our weekly series, brings you the newsiest, most buzzworthy tweets of the past seven days. What's in store this week? Twitter users in Egypt live tweet violence in the streets, Twitter confirms being blocked in Egypt, Katie Couric helps push a mogul's car out of the snow, and more.

About Short And Tweet: Some tweets make news, and some of those tweets break news. HuffPost Tech's new weekly feature of the top newsmaking tweets of the week will showcase both.

We'll be posting our picks for the tweets of the week, but we want to hear from you, too: Tweet us suggestions using the hashtag #hptweets, email us links at technology@huffingtonpost.com, or use the tool below to upload screenshots of noteworthy Twitter posts. See last week's picks here.

Citizens Live Tweet Violence In Cairo
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Tahrir is chaotic now. Fire everywhere. People are gathered there and extreme noise that I can\'t tell what is at the moment. #jan25
Despite the Egyptian government's efforts to cut off citizens' access to the Internet, some on the ground in Cairo have managed to get online via alternative methods. Syrian journalist Danny Ramadan, for example, continues to live-tweet the ongoing violence in Egypt's capitol.
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Short and Tweet, our weekly series, brings you the newsiest, most buzzworthy tweets of the past seven days. What's in store this week? Twitter users in Egypt live tweet violence in the streets, Twitte...
Short and Tweet, our weekly series, brings you the newsiest, most buzzworthy tweets of the past seven days. What's in store this week? Twitter users in Egypt live tweet violence in the streets, Twitte...
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