Yoani Out-Tweets Fidel

March 9, 2011


BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS


It's being reported by the AP -- as if it were some magnanimous news event -- that Fidel Castro has surpassed 100,000 Twitter followers.

The headline reads, "Cuba's Fidel Castro is island's maximum leader in cyberspace."

Not only is this pathetic, but factually imprecise.

Despite monopolizing all of Cuba's Internet and telecommunication services, Fidel has 100,000 Twitter followers for his ramblings.

Yet, the island's top Twitter is Cuban pro-democracy blogger Yoani Sanchez, who despite being persecuted and harassed by the Castro regime, has nearly 110,000 followers.

If Fidel can't out-tweet Yoani while "cheating" through censorship and repression -- just imagine if all Cubans were free to Tweet-at-will.

Fidel would be at the bottom of the list.