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nhebb
I wonder if Alec Baldwin and the other members of the Film Actors Guild feel slighted at being passed over?
tinybit
Would be funny to see all the world politicians befriend each other on social networks - world peace!?
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praptak
After the huge success that was force joining of groups ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767368 ), Facebook could introduce force-friending. Applied to: small countries neighboring large and powerful ones, citizens of autocratic states (Big Brother IS your friend!)
buddydvd
If I recall correctly, authorizing TwitPic makes you automatically follow @TwitPic and @noaheverett.
StavrosK
This is interesting. How do people feel about this forced following?
fizx
Note that it's not a verified account.
saurik
(Twitter no longer does new verified accounts: they consider that "beta" program "closed".)
nbsymr
The account's authenticity is confirmed by the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11007825
martey
Your linked article is not really a "confirmation": the BBC talked to a professor from Tufts University who says that the government is behind the account. Alternatively, Forbes talked to Alejandro Cao de Benos (a Spaniard who runs the "Korean Friendship Association": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Cao_de_Benos_de_Les_y... ), who claimed that the government has nothing to do with it: http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/08/23/north-korea-t...

I think the most that we can say is that the evidence is inconclusive.

aberkowitz
First CNN Turns twitter into national news, now we try and make Twitter international news?

This article says nothing useful about North Korea except that they like people with similar interests (surprise).

rms
The last North Korean Twitter account to get social media attention was fake, why wouldn't this one be?

They don't have the internet in North Korea.