Klaus Weidenbach
The United States built Twitter-like social media programs

Nytimes: NYTimes - U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics (RON NIXON)

The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba, that were aimed at encouraging open political discussion, Obama administration officials said Friday.
What platform they build this upon?
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Tobias
doesn't look like StatusNet what I've found in the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20110820081829/http://www.zunzuneo.com/) (linked from the German article in the Wikipedia.
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