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Swedish live video streaming site Bambuser said Wednesday its service had been blocked in Egypt shortly after the start of unprecedented nationwide rallies against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Bambuser, which provides live streaming of videos from mobile phones and webcams, "has been blocked since noon (GMT) yesterday," Tuesday, in Egypt, company chief executive Hans Eriksson told AFP in an email.

Maans Adler, who founded the site in 2007, said he was convinced the Egyptian government was behind the blockade.

"The Internet provider is probably the one that can deny access to different websites and services, but in this case we believe that the Egyptian government has asked the Internet providers to shut down a range of services," he told AFP.

US-based microblogging service Twitter also confirmed Wednesday its website was blocked in Egypt, where thousands of demonstrators marched Tuesday to demand Mubarak's departure.

The last videos from Egypt on Bambuser (http://bambuser.com) were posted around 1200 GMT on Tuesday, show the massive protests, which have left three demonstrators and one police officer dead, according to the latest toll.

The Swedish website is very popular in Egypt, where Egyptians use it to stream videos directly from their country.

During the general elections there late last year, some 10,000 videos filmed in the country were posted on Bambuser, which Eriksson said was "an exceptional number."

The site's videos can be viewed through live-streaming, which means no downloading is necessary.