24 Comments For “Breaking: Linkedin Restores Service to Syrian Users, Says a Human error!”

1. Mamod | April 19th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
   

   Wow, what a quick response, I really appreciate Linkedin effort to fix this issue and for their apologies, I now admire Linkedin even more.

   This level of professionalism proofs that Linkedin is a trustworthy place on our profession network

2. Khaled | April 19th, 2009 at 10:43 AM
   

   Thanks Gaith, you are really awesome …

3. Khaled | April 19th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
   

   I don’t think it was a “Human error”, but they felt shame after posting about it in ArabCrunch, because Anas contacted them and they replied in an ugly way.

   The blocking is finished now, however I still get:
   “Access to this account has been suspended.”

   I’ve also contacted them to see what’s going on.

4. Gaith Saqer | April 19th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
   

   Also not to forget the effort of Jillian York from the HP who took the story from Global Voices Online Copy post from ArabCrunch linkedin post:
   http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/18/syria-linkedin-kicks-off-syrian-users/

   Also The famous Arab American As’ad AbuKhalil of political professor of science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley, posted about this too here: http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/04/blocked.html

   moreover your comments on AC and ur tweets also might be behind this.

   ArabCrunch will be the voic

5. Hiconomics | April 19th, 2009 at 12:36 PM
   

   Well done to everyone who pushed for this…Gaith, Jillian York, AngryArab… and the rest of us who made some noise.

   Pleasantly surprised to see the response on Twitter and the blogosphere… and even more by LinkedIn’s U-turn.

6. Gaith Saqer | April 19th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
   

   @Hiconomics thanx we should be all together supporting Arab Internet users. AS @Khaled: give it a few hours as it is the weekend up in USA.

7. Gaith Saqer | April 19th, 2009 at 5:55 PM
   

   Btw I also Asked her about Sudan, if also the ban was lifted.

8. Okbah | April 19th, 2009 at 8:00 PM
   

   Regarding to SALAMBC, I am not convincing in like these social networks, because I am sign up and enter all personal information but I haven’t receive any email since that to confirmation my data and I can’t sign in to it.

9. Rias A. Sherzad | April 19th, 2009 at 8:23 PM
   

   Dear Okbah,

   Please e-mail us your account details (username of e-mail address) at info(at)salambc(dot)com and we will check what has happened with your user account. As per now we’re not aware of any signup issues, things seem to work fine.

   Many Thanks,
   Rias A. Sherzad
   CEO & Founder, Salam Business Club

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15. @3GFalcon | July 31st, 2009 at 12:15 AM
    

    salam i posted the story here:

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    http://arabcrunch.com/2009/07/linkedin-code-googl...

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