Tweet Street

The first time in the world, the name of a street is taken from one Twitter account. This could be you met in Palestine, precisely at the refugee camp in the West Bank.

A street name plates are blue with white font saying “@ arjanelfassed tweetstreet” plastered on the side of an old building in the middle of the camp which houses 15,000 refugees in Palestine.

The name refers to the way Twitter account people’s man named Arjan El Utrecht Fassed. Twitter address in order to carve on it, he’d reached US $146.

How can his name showed on the road? It turned out that the right to the names of streets in the area was sold. This action hosted by humanitarian groups from the Netherlands named Jouw Eigen Straatnam. Money from the sale of this street name will be donated to a local foundation, the Palestinian Child Care Society, which deals with the children drop out of school.

So far, 10 roads have managed to get sponsorship, but this is only one inspired by Twitter. Currently there are 184 left the road.

Knowing the course was ‘so’, what the response from Fassed own? “Called road accordance my Twitter account is a symbolic way to connect online and offline to the children of Askar, ‘he said.

via wired.com