Chavez hires 200 to manage Twitter account

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has reportedly hired a team of 200 people just to manage his new Twitter account. “I'm creating a team due to the avalanche of requests, and some grievances,” he told a TV audience, according to the Associated Press. The socialist leader joined the micro-blogging site two weeks ago, after noticing his rivals increasingly used the service to trash his administration and organise street protests. He'd previously dismissed...