Al Jazeera English live-tracks tweets pouring in from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain

Twitter has been a vital tool for tracking and disseminating information about the ongoing revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa since popular uprisings first began to swell earlier this year.

Now, in a bid to house the diffuse content of the Twitter world on a broadcast media platform, Al Jazeera--the Qatar-based Arab news network that has also risen to prominence amid the recent wave of popular protests--has debuted a dashboard on the website for its English-language arm. The social-media hub allows users to track the number of tweets pouring in from Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, where social unrest has recently escalated into civil war. There's also a live feed featuring the latest Tweets from each country, as well as several infographics breaking down hash tag distribution and other data.

As Mashable's Sarah Kessler notes, "Al Jazeera has led the world's media coverage of protests and revolutions throughout the Middle East and Africa. ... But considering other projects such as Iamjan25.com, real-time tweet visualizer HyperCities Egypt and other news organizations' interactive maps of real-time tweets from the same areas, it seems as though Al Jazeera was uncharacteristically late to this idea."

Twitter is getting another big plug in "Tweets From Tahrir," a paperback and eBook that OR Books will release later this month. "This book brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative, allowing the story of the uprising to be told directly by the people in Cairo's Tahrir Square," according to the publisher.