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Hugo Chávez's Twitter habit proves a popular success
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/hugo-chavez-twitter-venezuela
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, is gaining about 2,000 Twitter followers a day. It is known mainly for transmitting celebrity trivia and narcissism, but in the hands of Hugo Chávez Twitter has become something else: a tool of government. Venezuela's president has harnessed the social networking and microblogging service for his socialist revolution by encouraging the population to tweet him its concerns.
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