हिन्दी

Homepage World

Tags:

Russian president

,

Vkontakte

,

Dmitry Medvedev

,

Social networking

,

Facebook

Moscow: Dmitry Medvedev's (Russian President) account at the country's largest social networking site Vkontakte has locked the attention of one million followers in just 24 hours, as per the report.

Medvedev created his profile at Vkontakte on Wednesday, several hours prior to an informal meeting with Russian bloggers.

The president's profile says his interests are: "work, family, sports, internet" and favourite music is "hard-rock, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, classical."

Along with this Medvedev has created two photo albums - one with images of landscapes he captured with his professional camera and another with photographs, featuring his everyday life as president.

His latest post, saying: "Thank you for your attention and gifts! Getting used to Vkontakte's style. Good night, everybody!" gathered more than 17,000 'likes' in less than one day.

Vkontakte is recognized as Russia's most popular website, which has over 100 million userbase, is famous for its pirate music and video content, available for downloading.

Medvedev, who styles himself as a technologically savvy leader, is registered on Twitter, has a blog on LiveJournal and an account on YouTube and Facebook.

His Facebook fan page has already gained over 300,000 followers.

Medvedev initially opened his Twitter account in June 2010 during a visit to Silicon Valley. More than 660,000 people are currently following him at MedvedevRussia over the micro-blogging site, while the English version, MedvedevRussiaE, has almost 134,000 followers.

Opinion Polls

Tag Related Stories:-

Featured Blogs

Advertise with Us || Legal || Disclaimer || Privacy Policy || About Us || Our Editors || Contact Us || Feedback || Jobs