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15 interesting facts about world leaders and diplomacy on Twitter

Social networks are increasingly used by politicians and other personalities of the world, increasingly more of them becoming active on Twitter.

According to a Burson-Marsteller study company, Twiplomacy, more than two thirds (67.88 percent) of state leaders and heads of government in the world have personal accounts on Twitter, writes the Times of India.

For many politicians, Twitter has become a powerful channel for digital diplomacy and leadership in the XXI century. Currently, more than 80 percent of UN member states have accounts on Twitter.

The cited source shows 15 things about world leaders and diplomacy on Twitter:

1 most wanted world leaders

President Barack Obama (BarackObama) is the world's leading social network whose account is the most watched - 47.7 million users. Pope Francis (Pontifex) is the world leader in this ranking second with 14 million people following him on Twitter, with accounts in nine languages​​. In third place was the president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBYudhoyono), with over 5 million users watching them work, but with a country population of nearly 250 million people.


2 the Minister connected with other world leaders

Frenchman Laurent Fabius (LaurentFabius) is the most well-connected foreign minister, with no less than 91 connections with other world leaders or its homologues. Another very active leader of foreign diplomacy is the Swedish Carl Bildt (carlbildt) with 68 connections on Twitter, being the third place.

3 #DiplomatieDigitala

More than 3,100 of embassies and ambassadors are active on Twitter.

4 Most Popular

Pope Francis (Pontifex)     is by far the most influential on Twitter, each message account or redistributed in Spanish are more than 10,000 times, while each post in English is redistributed, on average, nearly 6,500 times.

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5 Global Influence

With one exception, all the governments of the G20 are present official Twitter and 6 of the G7 leaders have a personal account on the social network.

6 posts his own tweets? not

Among the few world leaders who actually write tweets include Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves (IlvesToomas), and British Foreign Minister William J. Hague (WilliamJHague).

7 pioneers

President Barack Obama was the first world leader who has created an account on Twitter, on March 5, 2007 At the time, the current president of the United States was still a senator. Other world leaders who rushed to take into account the social network Enrique Pena Nieto are Mexican President (EPN), Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (ElioDiRupo) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (PMHarper). Most world leaders have followed in the years 2010 and 2011.


8 How many tweets?

According Twiplomacy until June 23 world leaders sent messages together 1,932,262, which means that each posted an average of four messages every day.

9 The most active global leader

President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro (PresidencialVen) wrote nearly 50,000 tweets, which means an average of nearly 40 a day.

10 The most "talkative" leader on Twitter

Prime Minister of Uganda,AmamaMbabazi, is a world leader who converses most in the social network, 95 percent of its messages are replies to messages to other Twitter users. He follows the president of Rwanda,PaulKagame country you have the top and Foreign MinisterLMushikiwabo. First foothold is the premier NorwegianErna_Solberg, located on the 5th.

11 Size really does matter

Accensiunea meteoric popularity on Twitter when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono looks like the leaders of some of the most populous countries definitely have an advantage over others.

12 #HashtagDiplomatie

Over the years, world leaders have used the hashtag sites to promote specific topics, such as #BringBackOurGirls or #ENDViolence against children.

13 Early in Twitter lists

Another sign of popularity on Twitter is the number of aparatii of an account on a Twitter list. President Barack Obama is the clear winner, appearing in over 207,000 lists.

14 Language twiplomatiei

Language in which the messages are posted on Twitter is Spanish (32.19 percent), followed by English (28.29 percent) and French (6.74 percent).


15 #Selfie

Self-sized craze has reached the highest echelons of global governance. Some of the most popular selves are one of President Barack Obama and David Cameron at the funeral of Nelson Mandela, the group of American Secretary of State John Kerry in the Philippine capital of Manila and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in voting precinct. Other world leaders such as Pope Francis, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have made ​​such pictures with fans.

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Gear VR: Virtual Reality Samsung mobile

Conference at IFA 2014 Samsung has unveiled a virtual reality device, developed in partnership with Oculus called Gear VR. Basically it is an accessory for the Galaxy Note 4, processing, display and playback sound is made ​​through the new Samsung phablet.

Gear VR is rather a plastic housing that includes two lenses and elastic to secure the user's head. Inside it are also found four sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer and proximity sensor) that connects to Note 4 via a USB 1.1 interface. Like Rift Oculus device, it is possible to set the distance of the eye lens, diopter to compensate for users who wear glasses.

Latency is very discussed topic when it comes to virtual reality, and Samsung boasts a response time less than 20 ms from the time the movement and display to display. The lens offers a field of view of 96 degrees, and for easier control of the phone while using volume buttons have been added, a "back" button and touch panel.

When the phone is connected to VR Gear, common functions are stopped, it entered into a special virtual reality. Thus can be used entire processing power without the usual frequency fluctuations and applications in the background without consuming precious resources. QHD display of the Galaxy Note 4 becomes the display for the new VR headset, offering high resolution and than that VR offers the Oculus Oculus Rift DK2 (1920 x 1080 pixels).

The legendary programmer John Carmack (Wolfenstein responsible for the series of games, Doom and Quake) was directly involved in the project, he stepped on stage at IFA to talk about the Oculus VR technologies developed with Samsung.

Gear VR will launch in 2014 and will come at a price of about 200 dollars / euro. It will be called the Samsung Gear VR: Innovator Edition, which comes with a microSD card filled with demonstrations of the technology. Obviously, this is not a product for everyone, the target audience is virtual reality enthusiasts, professionals may find practical applications for this technology, as well as developers of applications and games.

Microsoft looses talents: mass desertion from Gates' company

Seattle became a battleground in the IT industry after Facebook, Twitter and Google have opened branches in fiefdom controlled by Microsoft and Amazon, recruiting the most promising employees of Bill Gates. The city has nothing in sunny San Francisco, rather than belonging to the same West Coast Silicon Valley and a new project, which Gates's competition is building busily using Microsoft's human resources.

Facebook, Twitter and Google have organized from June to August, in their own style recruitment campaigns for their new locations in Seattle betting on the number of large IT specialist gathered under the umbrella of Microsoft Corporation and, of course, on their tendency to defect from the company. Seattle, by the way, is a pool of talent in the IT industry, generating large number of specialists and lower labor costs, notes Reuters.

Growing trend

Microsoft always faced with a phenomenon of migration of staff, but lately, the arrival of competition in the increased number of deserters from Microsoft who see a good opportunity to increase their income without being subjected to torment relocation. And many of those who drop ship Microsoft know and what brains can be easily recruited.

"A lot of top engineers from Miocrosoft have turned to us. Their high level of knowledge is perfect for our application development. Hence you personally select here in Seattle" Facebook's Seattle bureau chief confirms Rohit Wad former Microsoft employee in the past 18 years.

Number of employees in Seattle Facebook grew to 125 this year, surpassing the figure of 400 in total, and personal growth is seen in increasing office space on three floors. Google has already opened two centers in Seattle, and the total number of employees in the area exceeded 1,400, gathered under the command of veteran Chee Chew, an impressive length of over 25 years at Microsoft. Twitter yet remained a figure of 100 employees.

Seattle cheaper than San Francisco

Income a Seattle programmer starts from 95,000 USD / year to 110,000, how is the average in San Francisco, but instead becomes tempting for many IT-ists in terms of lower cost of living in Seattle.

The city is rainy, with long periods of cold weather, but the savings you can make are certainly higher than in the Bay Area of California. This provides new and new generation of programmers who try their luck in Seattle, benefiting even scholarships or different features that Amazon and Microsoft gave them time. This urged those from Twitter, Google and Facebook to open new branches in Seattle. However, specialized workforce here begins to decrease as more and more new companies open offices.

Personal crisis

In general, the tendency of staff migration from Microsoft was the desert after evaluations of summer and autumn, when the company distributes and bonficatiile for a year of work.

But this year, 1,351 Microsoft employees, mostly involved in testing programs have left the company after recruitment campaigns carried out by the competition. Microsoft records now a shortage of 1,289 staff people, especially the LinkedIn app, over half of aplictiile vacancies requiring knowledge of "cloud". Microsoft representatives have refrained from commenting on the crisis staff registered company.