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The IDF-Hamas Twitter Offensive of Ought Twelve

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This is so surreal. Hamas and the IDF are feuding it out not only with actual weapons but over twitter as well.At least this field of battle has no casualties.:lol:
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Wow, that's bizarre.
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I'd prefer if they stuck to that method...
And not doing it for real...

Wouldn't it be great if such stuff could be solved by a "Your momma" style contest?
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LaCroix wrote:Wouldn't it be great if such stuff could be solved by a "Your momma" style contest?
Or <insert current favourite FPS> team deathmatches. Heck, with TeamSpeak and similar VoIP programs, you can combine the two together...
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They tried to settle things via Counterstrike match, but they couldn't settle which side would play terrorists.
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White Haven wrote:They tried to settle things via Counterstrike match, but they couldn't settle which side would play terrorists.
Actually, that was with Hezbollah (the ones up north). And apparently, they cheat
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White thrill seekers dissuaded by terrorists is a big joke, thanks!

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Haaretz in hebrew.

Translation mine wrote: 18:40: Officials in the PR department in the government have demanded that the IDF spokesmen rein in the tweets that appear on the IDF Spokesmen feed. Complaints have mainly come in from after the picture of the Algabri with the title ELIMINATED and the pictures of the home in Gaza with the question "would you raise your child in this neighborhood?". The IDF has complied with the demand and ordered the owner of the twitter account to "moderate" his tweets. And indeed in the last few days they have moderated and turned more informative. An official from the IDF Spokesmen office has confirmed there were requests to moderate the tweets.
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Ace Pace wrote:Haaretz in hebrew.

Translation mine wrote: 18:40: Officials in the PR department in the government have demanded that the IDF spokesmen rein in the tweets that appear on the IDF Spokesmen feed. Complaints have mainly come in from after the picture of the Algabri with the title ELIMINATED and the pictures of the home in Gaza with the question "would you raise your child in this neighborhood?". The IDF has complied with the demand and ordered the owner of the twitter account to "moderate" his tweets. And indeed in the last few days they have moderated and turned more informative. An official from the IDF Spokesmen office has confirmed there were requests to moderate the tweets.
A friend told me why the IDf Twitter feed is so damn effective (compared to the dismally miserable standards of Israeli PR or lack of thereof or schizophrenia thereof) - it's run by external contractors, not the IDF itself. Doesn't keep the latter from interfering it seems.
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To be fair, Israeli government PR in general (and the IDF spokesman office in particular) seem to be much more competent this time round
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Apparently the Palestinian tweets are getting more likes. Easily.

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Clearly the IDF and Hamas need to take this clash of the titans to back-and-forth Youtube 'debate' videos. :lol:
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mr friendly guy wrote:Apparently the Palestinian tweets are getting more likes. Easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obbRoJQ4BM
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The IDF have more followers then the AlQassam bridades. And I don't think you can like a tweet on twitter, not sure.
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