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Bhutan: Trending On Twitter For Helping India

Posted 6 August 2012 17:45 GMT

Written byRezwan

Countries	India, Bhutan
Topics	Disaster, Citizen Media
Languages	English

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македонски	· Бутан: Топ-тема на Твитер заради помошта на Индија
Español	· Bután: Tendencia en Twitter por ayudar a la India

Last week, power grids across Northern India collapsed and neighboring Bhutan's hydroelectricity was used to run the Delhi Metro. Indian Twitterati were bemused by this fact and reacted on Twitter so much that ‘Bhutan’ ended up in the top ten trending hashtags on Twitter, reports Boaz Shmueli.

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