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Jonathan Stray | December 14, 2009
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reportedly joined the
Twitter microblogging bandwagon on Sunday morning and is rapidly
gaining followers.
Tweeting under the username PRESIDEN_RI, the two dozen tweets from his account so far are mostly links to government press releases.
The Jakarta Globe is still awaiting confirmation from a presidential
spokesman about the validity of the account and whether the President
himself would be writing tweets in the future.
SBY has been relatively slow to join Twitter compared to other world leaders. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak joined Twitter in September 2008, and also maintains an active blog. US President Barack Obama joined in March 2007, long before he was president.
The most recent tweet from @PRESIDEN_RI refers to SBY’s landing in
Brussels, en route to a meeting with European Commission President Jose
Manuel Barroso. Most of the president’s tweets so far were posted
within a few minutes on Sunday morning.
However, the news of the president’s account is spreading fast through
the Indonesian Twitter community. By 10:30 a.m. on Monday, SBY had 50
followers. That figure had reached 480 by 2 p.m.
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