Cuba

Cuban leader Raúl Castro is not tweeting personally and neither is his brother Fidel. However their speeches and thoughts are broadcast on Twitter via @ReflexionFidel and @RaulCastroR.

The Twitter feed for the “First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba” was set up on 1 May 2011 when he presided “over the May Day parade in #SantiagodeCuba”. The tweets about Raúl Castro’s activities are in Spanish, culled from the Cuba Debate website which reports on the daily activities of the Cuban leadership. The account consistently mentions @CubaDebate but also @ReflexionFidel and @ChavezCandanga, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Twitter account.

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Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)

Tweets:284
Following:34
Followers:19,714
Joined Twitter: 05/01/2011
Language: Spanish
Status: Active
Tweets/day: 0.66
% Retweets: 1%
Mentions/Tweet: 1.94
Replies/Tweet: 0%
% Tweets retweeted: 97%
Total of retweets: 2,111
Most mentioned
@cubadebate (377), @reflexionfidel (54), @embacubaven (39), @chavezcandanga (18), @condenaguerra (9).
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First tweet

Translation: #RaulCastro presides over parade in #SantiagodeCuba http://bit.ly/jhvb8B @cubadebate # Cuba # 1deMayo (via @ Cubadebate)