Chile's President Met With Influential Twitter Users To Discuss National Issues
If this isn’t a sign of the times, I don’t know what is. The President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, invited 15 top Twitter users to have lunch at the presidential palace last week, and discussed issues of national importance with these 140 character gurus.
Global Voices Online reports that Piñera chose 15 influential Twitter users to come to the palace for a 2 hour lunch on August 24th, the day that a Chilean labor union was calling for a national strike.
However, the lunch, rather than being touted as an embrace of the power of social media, was the focus of much criticism.
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