Yushchenko becomes a Twitter
Published: 25 February, 2009, 12:35
TAGS: Ukraine, Yushchenko
Viktor Yushchenko is now Twittering on the Internet, using the social networking site to tell people what he is up to. However, Ukraine’s President seems to be in the dark about the simple rules of blogging.
The president's press service says the main purpose of using Twitter is to allow the Ukrainian president to communicate with the public using today's technology.
Twitter gives each user a home page where they can post short messages of up to 140 characters using the Internet, SMS, and instant messaging. Anyone can read the posts, which are supposed to answer the question “What are you doing now?”
Such communication has become a trend among politicians around the globe. U.S. President Barack Obama keeps his own blog at twitter.com where he informs visitors about all turns of his life.
Unlike his American counterpart, however, Yushchenko, for some reason, refers to himself in the third person, which is a bit awkward for the blogging format. Indeed, there is a strong impression that the blog is nothing more than a simple copy-paste from Yushchenko’s own press-service site, which raises questions about Yushchenko’s personal contribution into his own blog.
So who really is behind Yushchenko's blog?
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