Member of India's Parliament Tweets Away
A young whippersnapper in India’s Parliament had the nerve to set up a Twitter account, express his opinions through it (even if they didn’t mesh with those of his superiors), accumulate more than 500,000 followers and actually pay attention to their messages and respond to many of them.
Shashi Tharoor, 53, a member of Parliament and a junior minister of foreign affairs, is that young whippersnapper, and he told The New York Times that after initially being reluctant to use Twitter, “I suddenly realized it was both a broadcast medium and an interactive medium.”
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