A ‘Cuban Twitter’

The Associated Press has an article about the twits trying to use Twitter to overthrow Castro:

Washington covertly made ZunZuneo, Cuban slang for a hummingbird's tweet, to woo mobile users with news stories. Once the platform's audience would balloon, the supposed— and failed— goal was to flood it with “content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize ‘smart mobs'.
Fifty-three years after the CIA failed to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government with a group of armed Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs, the US government is still trying to dislodge the Caribbean island’s communist regime, according to a new report.
The Associated Press, citing documents and people involved in the project, reports the US government has been working covert backchannels with aid agencies, funneling money through front companies for years, to create a social media platform designed to “renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society”.
The social media platform, called ZunZuneo, Cuban slang for a hummingbird’s tweet, was designed to entice the country’s mobile users with non-controversial news stories. Later, once the platform had engaged hundreds of thousands of followers, ZunZuneo was then supposed to be flooded with “content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize ‘smart mobs.’”
During its peak, the service attracted forty thousand followers, but fizzled out due to funding issues among the front companies in 2012. In the end, the US government’s Cuban social media platform failed to incite a revolution, and Fidel’s brother Raul Castro remains firmly in power.

Rico says they oughta just shut up and just wait for the Castro boys to die. (Which, hopefully, will be soon, as Rico has plans to be in Havana in 2015...)