Jordan

King Abdullah of Jordan does not tweet but his wife, Queen Rania Al Abdullah started tweeting personally on 8 May 2009, during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Jordan. About a year before she was on Twitter, she launched her YouTube channel to engage with Middle-Eastern users. In an interview on Techcrunch she said she believed that Twitter is a great way to share her concerns with people across the world, to hear their ideas, and to motivate them to support her causes. Queen Rania tweets regularly and actively engages with her followers. Her tweets are mainly in English; however, she keeps her mother tongue (Arabic) visible in her tweets. Her tweets range from local, regional and international issues including education, health, youth and community empowerment, to more personal tweets like photos of herself and her family. Queen Rania conducted her first Twitter interview in June 2009 at the World Economic Forum that was held at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

The Jordanian government started to tweet in 2010 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Samir Al Rifai and continued until February 2011. Most of the tweets then focused on the election results, Al Rifai political visits, his speeches delivered in conferences and events as well as interviews on different TV stations. The verified Twitter account served as an effective communications tool, established by the Prime Minister to engage and receive people’s feedback on key decisions taken in the government. It was also used to congratulate the nation on different occasions such as the election of Prince Ali to Vice President of FIFA (Asian Continent). Jordanian Twitter users were encouraged to share their feedback on government projects by tweeting their questions either directly to @SamirAlrifai or @PrimeMinistry. The last tweet, on 1 February 2011 states that "The king has asked Maarouf Al Bakhit to form a new government”. The account has been dormant ever since.