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Medvedev (Russia President) now in Twitter

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Logically, he should be following Putin.

He also visited the Apple Campus: http://twitpic.com/1zcizj

Anyone has more information on why he visited the Twitter office?

To get the Verified Account badge?

In Mother Russia you don't follow public officials on Twitter, public officials follow you.

http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia for those who keep it real

I wonder if he writes both, or if he has a translator whose full-time job is to watch the Russian feed, and translate.

"In Twitter" in both senses of the word: http://twitter.com/skr/status/16864317315

you'd think they'd bump the Kremlin dude and get that account instead of going with KremlinRussia(do any other countries have Kremlins?)...I'm sure he could be convinced to part with the account

What it must be like to work in an office where world leaders drop by

is he really personally bothering to write there or is it just another pr stunt?

If I was to guess, I would say that this is tied to the article on HN a few weeks back about how the Russians want their own version of Silicon Valley.

Rather than sending their president to San Francisco to see how he "gets the web", they would do a lot better by sorting out their corruption problems and improving civil liberties (these are the words of Russian commenters on that article, not me hating :-) )

In English, for some reason.

He has two accounts, one English, one Russian. The tweets are the same.

http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia http://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E

wow. Russia now 'democratic' at long last ;-)

I picture it going something like this:

1. you follow Medvedev on Twitter

2. KGB follows you

3. If you aren't they will also follow you just in case.

The red-tape force is strong with this one

there is no more KGB, it was called FSK(federal service of counter-espionage) in 1993 and in 1995 they renamed it to FSB(federal service for security)

thank you my lovable fellow professor einstein geek. :)

but seriously, I knew that, and despite that, I said KGB intentionally because it made it a more effective joke

FSB is just KGB with a smiley face :)

Why did I read that like a Yakov Smirnoff joke?

fake

It's a verified account, although I don't know how they verified it.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like he showed up at their offices...

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