By IANS/RIA Novosti,
Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has over 77,000 followers on the Internet micro-blogging site Twitter.
Medvedev opened his Twitter account and sent his first tweets during a visit to the Twitter headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley June 23.
The Russian president is registered under KremlinRussia for Russian-language tweets and KremlinRussia_e for English speakers.
Within 12 hours of opening his Twitter account, Medvedev had more than 15,000 followers. The Russian-language version now has more than 45,000 followers, and another 32,000 are following the president’s English tweets.
KremlinRussia is the first Russian microblog to receive a “verified” status from Twitter Inc., which confirms that the account is owned by the Russian president.
Medvedev, who portrays himself as a young and technologically savvy leader, also has a blog on LiveJournal and an account on YouTube.