US Military Tweets News From Afghanistan

This screen shot taken from Twitter.com shows the Twitter page of the U.S. military in Afghanistan. The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday, June 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

From Yahoo News/AP:

KABUL – U.S. and Afghan forces killed four militants in Wardak province, the U.S. military tweeted on Monday.

That's right. The military "tweeted" the news, sending it worldwide on Twitter, the social networking site, hours before making the formal announcement to the media.

The U.S. military is putting Twitter, along with Facebook and YouTube, into its arsenal of weapons for getting out its side of the Afghan story, reaching the online generation and countering the Taliban's own fast-growing Web-site and text-messaging skills.

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My Comment: This technology upgrade and acceptance is long overdue.