{"id":44448,"date":"2009-11-17T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackberrycool.com\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2009-11-17T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:28:18","slug":"blackberry-and-twitter-a-huge-success-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44448","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry and Twitter a huge success in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=a5YA9bpzOrZQ\">Bloomberg has a great article about the use of BlackBerrys and Twitter in Venezuela<\/a>. The combination of a BlackBerry and Twitter, is apparently a crucial traffic tool in a country with shoddy road work and hectic driving conditions. Under a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Trafico\">Trafico<\/a>, Venezuelans flag potholes and vent frustrations about local infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to RIM, Venezuela\u2019s per- capita use of smartphones outpaces Europe\u2019s. Under Chavez&#8217;s currency controls, Venezuelans are allowed $400 annually for online purchases. It seems that they are spending this $400 on a new BlackBerry because it&#8217;s a status symbol. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grouptweet.com\/\">If you&#8217;re interested in checking out the service that Venezuelans are using to Tweet traffic reports, try out GroupTweet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7131708721983712\";\n\/* 300x250, created 10\/14\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2579457768\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&copy; Kyle for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberrycool.com\">BlackBerry Cool<\/a>, 2009 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EbwBX4iTkTRrW4b_3297JWq7QAw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EbwBX4iTkTRrW4b_3297JWq7QAw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EbwBX4iTkTRrW4b_3297JWq7QAw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EbwBX4iTkTRrW4b_3297JWq7QAw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blackberrycool\/mYUU\/~4\/jD1fAlGrCIk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg has a great article about the use of BlackBerrys and Twitter in Venezuela. The combination of a BlackBerry and Twitter, is apparently a crucial traffic tool in a country with shoddy road work and hectic driving conditions. Under a group called Trafico, Venezuelans flag potholes and vent frustrations about local infrastructure. According to RIM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}