Local Use of Twitter and Facebook Grows

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"Is anyone in Kabul hearing booms and pop-pop of gunfire? Or is it just me?" This was one of first tweets about the January 18 multiple terrorist attacks in the heart of the central capital.

The assailants targeted the Presidential Palace, Serena Hotel, Faroshgah, Gulbahar Business Centre and many other places, fuelling panic and chaos across the city. The tweet was posted by a Kabul-based British woman, who has a twitter account http://twitter.com/girlofgordon.

Though its use for news coverage remains limited to foreign journalists based in Afghanistan, micro-blogging, social networking and video-sharing services like www.twitter.com, www.facebook.com, www.myspace.com and www.youtube.com are steadily becoming more and more popular with the Afghans.

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