Indian Prime Minister on Facebook, curious about twitter!
Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh is not Net-savvy, he does not use cell phone, unlike Obama, who uses a Blackberry.
But he is on Facebook – Thats the news that has been recently published in couple of places.
I searched for Manmohan Singh on Facebook out of curiosity, and there were 4-5 different profiles in his name all carrying his photo as avatar. One account actually had close to 9000 followers.
Could this be the real profile Indian Prime Minister – My guess is as good as yours – I dont know.
The News published in here mentions:
In the course of a discussion on NDTV, Singh’s former media advisor Sanjaya Baru said though the Prime Minister is not net savvy, there is a Facebook site which is regularly updated, so he is on Facebook.
But he had no idea as to who was updating the site.
Now, most of us Tweeple’s (people of Twitter) follow Shashi Tharoor on Twitter and his twitter stream is updated regularly.
Interestingly, Mr. Tharoor told NDTV that many Politicians have come to him inquiring about twitter. In-fact not only did Politicians from both sides of aisle have to come to him, but also Mr. Prime Minister
“In fact the Prime Minister asked me what this is all about… He wanted to know what Twitter was. So there is a lot of curiosity,”
Its really heartening to know that Indian Babu’s want to get online !
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Interesting that world leaders would not know how to use the software. I do admire the interest in learning!
LOL This post is very interesting and funny at the same time. Thank you for posting this. It surely made my day.
seems good!
After many national and international celebrities, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is the latest to have taken to social networking website Twitter in a big way.
Good to know that most leaders are willing to learn something new though their in the highest position.