Hold on to your laptops, Hugo Chavez has given birth to his first tweet:
Loosely translated, it means,
'How you doin'? Appeared as I said: at midnight. Headin' to Brazil. And very happy to work for Venezuela. We'll triumph!'
Chavez's latest public relations effort is, according to his Minister of Public Works, Diosdado Cabello (whose name means God given hair), due to the opposition's active use of Twitter to protest and ridicule the Venezuelan president:
'"The opposition thinks it owns the social networks. They think Twitter and Facebook are theirs. We are taking the battle to them, and we are 7 million militants that will take Twitter."'
Of course, three months ago Chavez himself was declaring that
'"using Twitter, the Internet (and) text messaging" to criticize or oppose his increasingly authoritarian regime "is terrorism."'
Can't wait for the "seven million militants" to "take Twitter", now that Hugo's in.
Fausta Wertz blogs at Fausta's blog.