Iran
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, set up his Twitter account on 9 April 2009, two months before the contested presidential elections.
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The staff of Iran’s Supreme Leader has been tweeting in Farsi, and more and more in English, as well as occasionally in French, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Urdu and Arabic, to present Iran’s position in the ongoing dispute about its nuclear facilities. In June 2012 his office tweeted an infographic about the ”Outcomes of #Iran's resistance on #nuclear issue" with "information extracted from 44 speeches delivered over the past 9 years (2004-2012) by Ayatollah Khamenei". His team frequently uses TwitPic to document his meetings, live tweets his Friday prayers and tweets links to the full text of his speeches. The existence of his Twitter account, while Twitter is officially banned in Iran, has been criticsed by Iran’s opposition leader Hossein Mousavi.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 2,825 | |
| Following: | 0 | |
| Followers: | 4,072 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 03/31/2009 | |
| Language: | English/Farsi | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 2.39 | |
| % Retweets: | 0% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 50% | |
| Total of retweets: | 3,999 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @nasimonlinear (1). | ||
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Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not personally on Twitter but he has two Twitter accounts @President_Iran and @Iran_President linked to his personal blog http://www.ahmadinejad.ir. Both accounts were automatically broadcasting his blog posts on the micro-blogging service and both accounts have been dormant since 2011. His blog is no longer updated either.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 596 | |
| Following: | 1 | |
| Followers: | 521 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 06/14/2009 | |
| Language: | Farsi | |
| Status: | Dormant since 14.02.2011 | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.53 | |
| % Retweets: | 0% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 1% | |
| Total of retweets: | 6 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
