Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using Twitter in Afghanistan
Alex Fitzpatrick
Journalists are using Twitter more and more these days, even in an unlikely place: Afghanistan.
With about a million active Internet users out of a total population of just less than 35 million, it may seem strange that Afghan news writers are turning to the 140-or-less character web messaging service. But Mustafa Kazemi, a reporter covering politics and the war in his home country, says journalists are using the service to share up-to-the-second news with followers across the country and the world.
Alex Fitzpatrick
Journalists are using Twitter more and more these days, even in an unlikely place: Afghanistan.
With about a million active Internet users out of a total population of just less than 35 million, it may seem strange that Afghan news writers are turning to the 140-or-less character web messaging service. But Mustafa Kazemi, a reporter covering politics and the war in his home country, says journalists are using the service to share up-to-the-second news with followers across the country and the world.
