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Still not much of a crowd in #Tahrir, maybe 500 people at most. On a possibly related note, it's hot #egypt 16 minutes ago via Seesmic
TheBigPharaoh 2 days ago, the question asked by Egyptians was: Morsy or Shafik? Today the question is: do you know a gas station that has gas? about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPad Retweeted by glcarlstrom and 10 others
Shorouk: Families of martyrs in Alexandria say they'll boycott the runoff election. bit.ly/M6B6I5 (Ar) about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
KarlreMarks So Mubarak, Gaddafi & BenAli walk into a bar. The TV is showing the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations. They look at each other in silence about 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Retweeted by glcarlstrom and 23 others
@DavidKenner Must be because of some bizarre tenet of Islam about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to DavidKenner
Ghozlan says candidates making demands of Morsi are trying to "extort" him: bit.ly/JRc1TF guess there's no deal about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
Short blog post from last night about the fuel crisis in Egypt: bit.ly/JRavRE (still not resolved, despite Fayza's promise) about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @HaniShukrallah: #Shafiq supporters already shooting at opponents: english.ahram.org.eg/News/43420.aspx about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
Friday prayers going on in Cairo; tiny crowd in Tahrir, maybe 250 people about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
.@ssirgany on the boycott movement, the "third option" in Egypt's runoff election: bit.ly/K1yvuP about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
Mai Shams el-Din: "The picture could be brighter if the revolution was smarter." bit.ly/LMVjjh (via @SultanAlQassemi) about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
"When Ahram Online spoke to people in Cairo about the [Mubarak] trial, most had forgotten about it" bit.ly/MdU5TQ about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck
Former Egyptian housing minister Maghrabi's corruption trial postponed until September: bit.ly/MdT6D7 about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck
Shafiq denies that he said he'd start executing people to restore security: bit.ly/MdREAL about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck
Whew: Fayza promises the gasoline shortages will be over in a few hours egyptindependent.com/news/fuel-cris… about 17 hours ago via web
Am trying to take a photo that captures the clusterfuck that is this fuel queue #cairo twitter.com/glcarlstrom/st… about 18 hours ago via Seesmic
At least 20 cars queued up on Brazil Street in Zamalek waiting to buy gas from one of the rare stations that has any. 26th of July a mess about 18 hours ago via Seesmic
So apparently the Shafiq HQ fire was "instigated" by the natural alliance of... Wael Abbas and Safwat Hegazy. egyptindependent.com/news/witnesses… #oyvey about 19 hours ago via web
AMAY asks, what happened to the Salafi vote? egyptindependent.com/news/where-did… about 19 hours ago via web
@arabist He also said such lawlessness never happened under Mubarak, which doesn't quite jive with my recollection of those years, but hey about 21 hours ago via web in reply to arabist

Name Gregg Carlstrom
Location Doha, Qatar
Bio Al-Jazeera reporter based in Doha, part-time blogger; opinions my own, of course. gregg [dot] carlstrom [at] aljazeera [dot] net