ZunZuneo
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| Microblogging service | |
| languages | Spanish |
| operator | USAid |
| Registration | Yes |
| On-line | 2010 (currently inactive) |
ZunZuneo was a short message service based on SMS for Cuban users of mobile phones, financed by the US development agency USAID from 2010 onwards . The service was set up with the appearance of a commercial company with advertising banners and, after the set-up phase, should serve the purposes of propaganda and data acquisition about the users. The background to the service, which had been discontinued in mid-2012, became known in April 2014 through an investigative report by the American news agency Associated Press .
The US government planned to use the service to encourage Cuban youth to rebel against the Cuban government . To conceal the actual origin, the headquarters were in Barcelona, Spain . The service gained almost 40,000 users by the time it was discontinued in summer 2012. It was shut down after the project ran out of budget and the Cuban security agencies put the service on the blocked websites list.
See also
Web links
- www.zunzuneo.com - Official website ( Memento of August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum and Alberto Arce: US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest, Associated Press of April 4, 2014, accessed on May 2, 2014 - original report on the discovery of ZunZuneo
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cuba: USA wanted to destabilize Castro regime with Twitter clone - Spiegel Online, loaded on April 4, 2014 Spiegel Online
- ↑ White House denies 'Cuban Twitter' ZunZuneo programs what covers . In: The Guardian , April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum and Alberto Arce: US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest, Associated Press of April 4, 2014, accessed on May 2, 2014 (English)