[/caption]The Twitter account, @Israel has been sold. To whom, you might ask. Yes, you guessed it, the government of Israel has purchased the account.
It used to be possible to get almost any username that you wanted on Twitter, that was before it had millions of users. Now you may have to try to pick a name more than ten times before you find on that's available. The user name, Israel, was snagged in 2007, before the Twitter explosion had occurred. It was taken by the Internet entrepreneur Israel Melendez.
He found himself facing a barrage of messages. Some of them were from anti-semitic users who thought that @Israel was the official Twitter account of the contentious state, however, little did they know, it wasn't.
For the above reason, Melendez refrained from using the account very often. When last month Israel, being eager to improve its social media and online presence, offered to purchase the account, Melendez gladly agreed. The amount was not disclosed, however, it must have been quite a bit to be able to make someone hand over such a valuable Twitter account.
The account has now officially changed hands. This means that haters can now send their messages to the country's government by Tweeting @Israel, however, I don't think that's too smart. Supporters, on the other hand, should show their support by following the account, and helping get it up there as one of the top Twitter accounts.
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This is not the first time that a government has sought to improve its online presence through Twitter. Just last month, North Korea made itself a Twitter account to spread anti-U.S. and pro-a united Korea tweets all over the Internet.
There are many countries now on twitter, and it is pretty certain that the number of countries joining will rise. Almost all country names have been taken as Twitter usernames, so we will probably be seeing more deals like this taking place.
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