‘World’s First’ Street Named After a Twitter Account
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By Eliot Van Buskirk
- September 28, 2009 |
- 10:06 am |
- Categories: Miscellaneous
"@arjanelfassed tweetstreet is located in the Askar refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
For once, you can take the “@” symbol at the front of a Twitter account name literally.
The Twitter name “@arjanelfassed” is not only the Twitter account of one Arjan El Fassed; it’s also the name of an actual location, “@ arjanelfassed tweetstreet,” which is now a street in a Palestinian refuge camp.
The Dutch website Jouw Eigen Straatnam charges $146 for each of 200 street names in the Askar camp and gives the proceeds to the Palestinian Child Care Society (PCCS), according to Al Fassed, to fund “cultural and expressive after-school activities” for the up to 1,000 children in the camp at its youth center. Part of the program’s allure, he says, is that the corresponding street signs are temporary.
“Since a refugee camp by definition should not remain permanent, selling street names of the camp is a creative way to connect people and support these children after school,” said Arjan El Fassed. “Naming the street to my Twitter account is a symbolic way to connect both online and offline with the children of Askar.”
There aren’t many places in the world where you can buy a street name, which leads us to believe that his claim that his is the first street named after a Twitter account is accurate. Has anyone seen another?
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Photo courtesy of arjanfassed
Yawn.
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Demon Barber of Tweet Street?
Wait…a refugee camp in their own country?
Isn’t that called a concentration camp?
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Camp? I don’t see any tents. Or barracks. They need to stop calling these towns “camps” just to elicit sympathy from the uninformed.
Moreover, from what I hear, the activities children are taught at the schools in the West Bank this fellow contributed to include how to chant “Death to Israel” and repeat loving phrases like “Jews are vermin.”
I hope this does not start a trend of building support for these activities.
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