26Nov/093
If a Twitterer Tweets a Tweet in a Forest….
The venerable China Daily has announced that our very own Yunnan Provincial Government has become the first in China to use Twitter, perhaps unaware of the irony that Twitter is tucked snugly behind the Great Firewall of China and is thus unavailable- without a proxy- to the general public.
November 26th, 2009 - 21:34
真的å—？太好玩了。maybe they just wanna tweet with foreigners. 很fashionçš„government
November 26th, 2009 - 22:22
There are so many layers of irony in this, it near boggles the mind.
November 28th, 2009 - 14:20
This is truly mind boggling. One thing that is interesting though. In recent years (especially re: Xinjiang) China has refrained from denying the existence of the firewell, and instead played by the strategy of insisting that it’s used to prevent subversive activities such as terrorism. Almost like they took a page straight out of the Bush administration. But yeah, that still doesn’t absolve the ridiculous irony of this announcement.