Interesting that the Egyptian Army and Reuters are friends on Facebook. Though I suppose the Army must have a page on FB for recruitment purposes. Are they really using FB as an official information sharing portal about news like this?
Possible that because of the instability recently Eqyptian authorities think Facebook is more capable of serving web pages than their own sites?
Why is an Army spokesperson talking about an event handled by the coast guard?
> Why is an Army spokesperson talking about an event handled by the coast guard?
You will have noticed that when a guy is filmed at the Pentagon handing out bad news, it's whatever PIO is up next, not an officer for that branch of the service.
Speculation: the Egyptian armed forces have the same sort of deal with the press. The Army guy was just the PIO on duty at the time.
Possible that because of the instability recently Eqyptian
authorities think Facebook is more capable of serving web
pages than their own sites?
Nike, McDonalds and Coca-Cola have Facebook pages they often update. Hamas and the IDF even have twitter accounts.
Perhaps it's not that they think their website is unstable - but that they think communicating with the public through Facebook and Twitter is part of the future of public relations.
Looks like a recruitment tool: https://www.facebook.com/Egyptian.Armed.Forces
Official page? http://www.mmc.gov.eg
(compare that to http://www.army.mil which looks like a news site)
Possible that because of the instability recently Eqyptian authorities think Facebook is more capable of serving web pages than their own sites? Why is an Army spokesperson talking about an event handled by the coast guard?
The ISP, Link Dot Net, does not have any English information about the event on their web page: http://www.link.net/English/Linkcorp/News+and+Events/
Apparently last week another Egyptian ISP had an issue as well: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/67894/Egypt/Pol...
Nothing on their webpage: http://www.tedata.net/eg/en/About-Us/News-And-Events
Also discovered that a lot of Egyptian websites have not had any updates to their news pages since late 2012.