Note that it's not a verified account.
The account's authenticity is confirmed by the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11007825
Who are North Korea’s 13 Twitter friends?
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#12Note that it's not a verified account.
The account's authenticity is confirmed by the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11007825
Your linked article is not really a "confirmation": the BBC talked to a professor from Tufts University who says that the government is behind the account. Alternatively, Forbes talked to Alejandro Cao de Benos (a Spaniard who runs the "Korean Friendship Association": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Cao_de_Benos_de_Les_y... ), who claimed that the government has nothing to do with it: http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/08/23/north-korea-t...
I think the most that we can say is that the evidence is inconclusive.
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#13Would be funny to see all the world politicians befriend each other on social networks - world peace!?
After the huge success that was force joining of groups ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767368 ), Facebook could introduce force-friending. Applied to: small countries neighboring large and powerful ones, citizens of autocratic states (Big Brother IS your friend!)
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#14The last North Korean Twitter account to get social media attention was fake, why wouldn't this one be?
They don't have the internet in North Korea.
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#15If I recall correctly, authorizing TwitPic makes you automatically follow @TwitPic and @noaheverett.
This is interesting. How do people feel about this forced following?
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#16While is hasn't been verified, it has certainly fallen afoul of South Korean censors. I'm currently staying in Korea and I'm greeted with this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/295167/warning.png I'd say there is a decent chance that this is real.
