How political leaders use Twitter in their advantage is an interesting phenomenon. Our western political leaders like Barack Obama or our 'own' Jan-Peter Balkenende use Twitter for a while now to communicate with the voters. The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, called Twitter some months ago in February, a "terror instrument" and "a canal to stage a coup". Fortunately for his followers, president Chávez has no problem to throw his principles to the winds and since two weeks he is an active user of Twitter with more than 260.000 followers, see http://twitter.com/chavezcandanga. Now he calls Twitter "a weapon that must be used for a revolution". With more than a quarter of a million followers he had problems 'retweeting' all his followers, so he hired 200 people to help him retweeting. The underlying reason for Chávez to use Twitter is to counterweight his opponents, for example the tv-station Globovision. The president also follows five people, among them his good friend Fidel Castro..
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