Controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Takes to Twitter to Counter Critics

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

I’ve already mentioned that blogs can be used as powerful tools to decry a social issue or start a Bolivarian revolution. This week Hugo Chavez, controversial socialist president of Venezuela, took to the blogosphere with a Twitter account called chavezcandanga. “Candanga” roughly translates to “devil.”

With only two tweets so far, he doesn’t have as many followers as Ashton Kutcher but he’s off to a good start. According to the AP, Chavez plans to use the Twitter to counter his online critics.

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Tags: micro-blogging, political blogging, twitter
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Twitter to implement sponsored tweets

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

At this year’s Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, COO Dick Costolo announced plans to implement Twitter’s “monetization engine” which will allow twitterers to pay to promote their tweets. This from CNET News:

The company insists that “promoted tweets” aren’t ads, but tweets, which in a sense is just Silicon Valley futurist-speak. But in a sense, they’re right: In choosing to promote a tweet in search, a company selects keywords and then chooses the existing tweets from its account that it wants to promote. Users can reply to them, retweet them, and add them as favorites. There will be real-time analytics attached. Businesses, more or less, are paying to push their tweets further into the Twitter universe than they would be otherwise.

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Tags: advertising, micro-blogging, twitter
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