Twitter will invade Iraq, Social Networking sites that are 'so yesterday'
BAGHDAD - The founder and chairman of micro-blogging service Twitter said during a visit to Baghdad on Wednesday that the US election had convinced him to try and get more people "tweeting" in Iraq.
Jack Dorsey, among nine executives on a US State Department organised trip, held discussions with local mobile telephone companies and said he is determined to ensure that Iraqis could use Twitter on their handsets.
"We definitely have an intention to get it going here," he said, sat alongside bosses from top US IT giants Google and YouTube.
"I spoke to my business development person last night and said 'can we work with these people?'. We intend to do it."
Twitter, which allows users to pepper their followers with messages of a maximum 140 characters, known as updates or "tweets", can be used on mobile phones or through the Internet. (AFP)