Reminds me of the board meeting in The Meaning Of Life, when they find out that people aren't wearing enough hats.

"In a case of ironic symbolism, the far left-most satellites are the Whitehouse, State Department, and......"

I also noticed Bill Gates' links were to Huffington Post, Al Jazeera (English) and Queen Rania (Jordan). They are also fairly far left.

And the official intelligence sources in Egypt say 'Thank you very much'. The Muslim Brotherhood? Probably much the same as they start wondering how many of their people were just exposed and start going into damage control mode. Did any of our people use these open networks? If so - run. Now. Fast!

As in 'Did Mubarak let all of this boil up this long in order to see what came to the surface? Did the Army permit this? Did the Intelligence permit this?

Run.

I remember reading about Iranian exiles protesting the Ayatollah in Lafayette Park after the Shah left Iran. Mingling in the crowd were members of the basiji, clubbing and dragging off to points unknown any number of the protesters. All done on American soil. No cop lifted a finger to prevent this from happening. That was in 79, so I'm sure we'll be really alert now when Copts and maybe the elusive moderate Muslims get together in Lafayette and protest the hijacking of the Egyptian Revolution by the Muslim Brotherhood.

The horizontal networks of twitter are mistaken for the vertical connections of time. Most Americans seem to think that anything called a democratic revolution results in a country like ours. The failure of public school history education aided and abetted by popular media is the emphasis of the founders as intellectual genisus, and the absence of the founders attachement to English law and government. Our form of government was based on England without the king. The experiment of our government was based on experience. American history actually should go back to England and include a history of England (which didn't when I was in school).

I do not know how the Egyptians without a cultural history of a Magna Carta or Reformation will develop a desire for the type of democratic idea of government we have. Even the French Revolution, did not progress and end like ours and at least one founder and intellectual giant, Jefferson, lived in France at the time (a horizontal time connection). Perhaps Twitter is more influential than Jefferson. Time will tell.

I personally think that the English were a positive influence, for most of the colonies they possessed are the places democracy seems to have been most successful.

The data is in public domain.

Anybody can obtain it and interpret it.