[lg policy] Taliban begin Tweeting in English, Add Followers (CNN)

[Gareth Price]

May 13, 2011

*(CNN) * -- The Taliban have long been known as haters of modern technology,
certainly the kind that comes out of the Western world they revile.

Now, they're on Twitter, and as of this week, even tweeting in English.

The account, @alemarahweb <http://twitter.com/#%21/alemarahweb>, links back
to the Taliban's website <http://shahamat-english.com/>, Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan, which is the name they use for themselves.

Most of the tweets on the account, which was created on December
19<http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/>,
are written in Pashto, the native language in parts of Afghanistan.

As The Guardian, the UK publication,
noted<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/12/taliban-join-twitter-revolution>,
the feed had fewer than 1,000 followers as of Thursday. The addition of
English, as well as the media reports about it, have more than tripled that
total to over 3,000 as of Friday morning.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/13/taliban.twitter/?hpt=C2


Best,

Gareth
-- 
Dr. Gareth Price
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
316 Languages Building, Box 90259
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0259
USA
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