Street Named with a Twitter Account
If you were thinking that you’ve seen it all in the Twitter globe, think again: A Palestinian street was named with a Twitter account name “@arjanelfassed tweetstreet”.
And who is this guy and why does he have a street named by his twitter name? Well it is much simpler that you may think, he bought it by u$s140 in this website. The owner of the Twitter account, Arjan El Fassed, also works as a humanitarian in a Holland development agency.
The website was looking for supporters for children in this refugee camp and to give these children some possibilities for cultural after-school activities. One of the co-founders said about the initiative: “We provide the opportunity for anyone to have a street named after them or one of their loved-ones — normally you’re required to have done something incredibly heroic and be dead before you get that sort of privilege”.
If these kinds of advertisements are helping some really needy people, then cheers to that. And common! Don’t tell me that you are not thinking the idea to do the same with your twitter account, blog or website?
(Ok, put me down with two: “@augustoalvarez” street and “http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/” avenue)
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THis shows peoples are really crazy about Twitter apps and its value.
Are you kidding me? That’s plastic. That’s blue. That’s no proper street name sign.
First, get proper streets. semi-destroyed walls are not ok. Then, stop conflicts with neighbor countries and start being a
Also, I hope that’s Helvetica. And yes, this twitter madness need to stop now.
Actually, there’s already a crew of Twitter haters in existence. I’m glad they didn’t see this street sign… or have they?
I still cant believe this has happened either. I was a little surprised something like this didnt happen in the USA first!