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April 28, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The socialist Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has begun to utilize Twitter to argue against his detractors online. This decision has compelled the President, who often communicates for hours, to encapsulate each thought of his in 140 characters or less.

Chavez has recommended the Venezuelans to gaze at his recently generated account — @chavezcandanga.

His first tweet in Spanish came up14 minutes subsequent to midnight after Tuesday: The tweet stated, “Hey, how is it going? I appeared like I said I would: at midnight. I am off to Brazil. And very happy to work for Venezuela. We will be victorious!!”

By late Tuesday, the socialist chief had in excess of 18,000 devotees before positioning a solitary tweet, and that number heightened to more than 23,000 early on Wednesday.

A close adviser to Chavez, Public Works Minister Diosdado Cabello, enunciated that a Twitter account had been created for the president. Chavez has mentioned that he has a squad functioning on it.

Chavez has, of late, witnessed his status diminish in the midst of an economic depression and elevated inflation. Chavez has often been outfoxed by his political adversaries, who are more energetic on the Web than the endorsers of Chavez.

Cabello articulated on Monday that Chavez’s backers desire to forcefully capture social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Cabello was cited by the state-run news agency as verbalizing that the political opposition regards that it is the proprietor of the social networking sites. They deem that Twitter and Facebook belong to them. Cabello mentioned that the 7 million Venezuelans, who are members of Chavez’s party, will fight against their political foes via Twitter.

Chavez, who was first chosen in 1998, has constructed his presidency around being a conversationalist, who is clued-up with the ordinary Venezuelans.