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Refugee Camp Gets First Street Named After Twitter Account

by Terrence O'Brien on September 29, 2009 at 08:02 AM

Refugee Camp Gets First Street Named After Tweeter
In what is likely the world's first such occurrence, a street in the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank has been named after a Twitter account. @arjanelfassed tweetstreet was named for @arjanelfassed, the Twitter account of Arjan El Fassed, who named the street through Dutch Web site Jouw Eigen Straatnam. The site sells the right to temporarily name one of 200 streets in the camp for $146, donating the proceeds to the Palestinian Child Care Society (PCCS), which sponsors after-school programs for the camp's children.

The street names are only temporary, ensuring a constant influx of money, but also serve as a reminder that, by definition, a refugee camp itself should be temporary.

Seeing as there are few (if any) other places where you can buy yourself the naming rights to a public road, we have little reason to doubt that this is, in fact, the first street named for a Twitter account. [From: Wired]

Tags: charity, palestine, refugees, top, twitter

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