Entertainment News - Nelson Mandela became the latest political figure who use microblogging site Twitter as a medium of communication to the public.
Former South African president was 92 years old joined Twitter after his own foundation to convince a British online consultant, Richard Millington, who first register an account @ NelsonMandela, to hand over the account.
"Our Twitter is @ NelsonMandela, thanks to Richard Millington in London which previously had registered this account,"declared a spokesman for the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory as quoted by Economic Times, Tuesday (19/04/2011).
Meanwhile, a spokesman Sello Hatang Mandela Foundation said, "Mr. Millington did not think twice when we were contacted to take over an account that he created last week."
"We also want to appeal to anyone who has an account with the name of Nelson Mandela to turn them over to Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory," he said.
When the news was revealed, a Twitter account that displays the logo of the Nelson Mandela Foundation that has gained followers that 4330 will receive information on exciting events in the life of anti-apartheid activists such.
"18 April 1986 Nelson Mandela was watching the movie 'Missing' in Pollsmoor prison,"writes one of his tweets.
Another example is, "On 17 April 1962 Nelson Mandela attended the National Assembly of Sierra Leone and met with various Members of Parliament."
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