Venezuela’s Maduro hits Twitter milestone
ARA AS Reuters — Vene uelan President icolas Maduro has hit a Twitter feed milestone of two million followers, though his cyber popularity still lags far behind that of his charismatic predecessor, the late Hugo have .
“Today reached two million followers on my Twitter feed that’s been active for barely a year,” he said during a speech to university students, lauding the follower who propelled him above the mark.
“ reetings to Mr. nver Segundo Medina ias of Maracaibo, ’ll see him tomorrow. He’s 53 years old, a compatriot, vangelical ... hat was he doing up so late t was like at 1 a.m. and this man, bam, he logged on,” he said.
Maduro, like have , regularly blasts mainstream media as “agents of a greedy US-led capitalist system that misrepresents the self-styled Socialist state.”
Both leaders proved avid users of Twitter, a US-based social networking company known for its service that lets people send and post text messages of 140 characters.
Maduro’s main Spanish-language @ NicolasMaduro Twitter account has been complemented with sister handles in nglish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
But on Twitter as in reality, Maduro has failed to trigger the same fervent adoration as have , who amassed four million followers.