Well the tweet deluge on Information and Communications Minister Rais Yatim’s “twitter is against our culture” comment has dropped off twitter’s trending topics since everyone’s going to sleep. What a day; I think many would agree they could really feel the power of social media today. [See the previous post I wrote when the trend [...]

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Tim on January 19th, 2010

Information Minister Rais Yatim has (inadvertently) made his mark internationally with his hashtag #yorais making #6 (and counting) on Twitter’s Trending Topics!

This was after his recent remark that Twitter and Facebook were against our culture:

“We are not saying that they cannot use Facebook or Twitter but when using such facilities they must upkeep the values [...]

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