Now On Twitter: The Taliban
The Taliban are notorious for their shunning of most modern, non-military technologies, including satellite dishes, televisions and computers, and even anything that simply produces the joy of music.
Now, in what is perhaps one of the biggest examples yet of Twitter’s mounting global importance, the Taliban have taken to the micro-blogging platform to continue their ongoing battle against the “infidel forces”.
Writes Jon Boone in The Guardian:
Their Twitter feed, @alemarahweb, pumps out several messages a day, keeping 993 followers up to date with often highly exaggerated reports of strikes against the “infidel forces” and the “Karzai puppet regime”.
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