TwittHab: Cuban tweeters meet face to face, celebrate budding community despite slow Internet

 December 31, 1969 06:00   washingtonpost.com

HAVANA — A few dozen members of Cuba’s small but growing Twitter community have met in real space for the first time. They got to put unfamiliar faces with familiar user names, and they commiserated about the woeful Internet access on an island that has the second-worst Web connectivity rate in the world. Gathering at a downtown Havana pavilion Friday, Cuba’s Twitterati wrote their online handles on name tags emblazoned with the Cuban flag and the hash tag used to organize the event, TwittHab. One by one they introduced themselves, told of their history with social media and compared numbers of followers. Read full article >>

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