Tag: VENEZUELA

In Hugo Chavez's mind, everyone wants to kill him -- even, apparently, on Twitter. According to the AP, police in Venezuela have arrested a man on charges that he used the microblogging site to incite an assassination attempt on President Chavez. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trossel says that the 27-year-old suspect is an engineer at Venezuela's state-run power company, National Electrical ...

After finally taking the plunge and joining Twitter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has wasted no time in using the micro-blogging service to blame others for his country's economic woes. During his weekly radio and television address this weekend, Chavez urged his followers to use Twitter to alert government authorities if they run into any currency speculators, whom Chavez blames for ...

Well, that certainly didn't take long. Just two weeks after he decided to embrace Twitter as a means to further his revolutionary agenda, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has already laid claim to the vaunted title of Most Popular Venezuelan Tweeter, effectively cementing his status as the most awesome person in the world. With over 237,000 people following his every tweet, Chavez and his ...

A few months ago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez went on a media shut-down rampage, closing opposition TV stations, retaliating against student protests, and, most notably, taking aim at Facebook and Twitter, a hotbed of anti-Chavez sentiment. Recently, however, Chavez decided to slap on some flip-flops, and take a major plunge into the social media pool. Posting under the 'chavezcandanga' ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 25 years ago today, the very first ".com" domain was registered (famously by Symbolics), and that solitary number has since increased exponentially to reach a total of approximately 85 million sites. D.C. is hosting a commemoration celebration tomorrow, and the keynote speaker is expected to be Bill Clinton. Wait, what? (Insert ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/02/04/twitter-undermines-hugo-chavezs-media-takeover/ '; As we learned last summer in Iran, whenever a dictatorial regime senses trouble in Totalitarianville, one of the first things it does is tighten its grip on the media. And whenever the thick walls of censorship go up, Twitter is there to slip through the cracks. Share Case in point: Venezuela, ...