my 2 cents: everyone is using twitter except the Germans

2009/07/24

everyone is using twitter except the Germans

Hmmm... why do I got the feeling that the German politicians are a little bit... "old-school"...?!?
Even the quite conservative Japanese politicians are using Twitter - if they have the permission to do so..
The only thing I have read about Twitter in combination with the upcoming election was more or less a side-note, where "they" have already start to think about some kind of "Twitter ban" (by law, of course)...

clipped from mdn.mainichi.jp

The Cabinet declared Tuesday that using the micro-blogging service "Twitter" in election campaign activities violates the Public Offices Election Law.

The government stated that messages posted on Twitter would be deemed "literature and images" specified in the election law, and considered illegal when such online messages are used in campaign activities.

Twitter has been widely used by Iranian citizens during the chaos after the nation's presidential election as means to exchange information on street protests. Recently, several world leaders, including the U.S. President Barack Obama, have been using Twitter to transmit information to the world.