North Korea Follows Only One American On Twitter--This Guy

Why North Korea Is Not Following You On Twitter
A journalist looks at the Twitter feed run by North Korea under the name '@uriminzok' shown on a computer at an office in Hong Kong on August 19, 2010. North Korea's foray into Twitter has prompted a game of online cat-and-mouse with Seoul as authorities in the South battle to stop their citizens following links to Pyongyang's propaganda website. North Korea has used its Twitter feed, opened under the name @uriminzok, to post links to anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on its Uriminzokkiri website. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL SORABJI (Photo credit should read DANIEL SORABJI/AFP/Getty Images)
A journalist looks at the Twitter feed run by North Korea under the name '@uriminzok' shown on a computer at an office in Hong Kong on August 19, 2010. North Korea's foray into Twitter has prompted a game of online cat-and-mouse with Seoul as authorities in the South battle to stop their citizens following links to Pyongyang's propaganda website. North Korea has used its Twitter feed, opened under the name @uriminzok, to post links to anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on its Uriminzokkiri website. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL SORABJI (Photo credit should read DANIEL SORABJI/AFP/Getty Images)

North Korea is not known for its social-media savvy. When the Democratic People's Republic launched its official government Twitter account under the handle of @uriminzok (meaning "our nation") in August 2010, it started making friends in a sluggish and erratic fashion. When they weren't antagonizing South Korea or sending out links to propaganda, Pyongyang's social-media wizards followed barely a dozen tweeps, seemingly at random: a few Americans here, a Vietnamese account there, and a Venezuelan radical just for the hell of it.

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