The state of Israel confirmed yesterday it had purchased an @israel Twitter address from a Miami man, whose feed had been the subject of anti-Semitic comments
The state of Israel confirmed yesterday it had purchased an @israel Twitter address from a Miami man, whose feed had been the subject of anti-Semitic comments.
Paul Hirschson, deputy consul general for Israel in Miami, said that the Israeli government wanted to obtain the @israel account from the man, whose name is Israel Melendez.
"Once we decided that we wanted to use the name Israel in our Twitter account we started to look for who had it," the diplomat said.
Melendez also operates a pornographic website, but Hirschson said that for the state of Israel, "it was not important to know who he was and what he used the account for. We needed to have the name of Israel because we are the state of Israel."
The purchase price was not disclosed but Hirschson said it was a "reasonable" sum.
Melendez had said that the address had been subject to a flood of anti-Semitic comments. "My account was basically unused because I was getting dozens of replies every day from people who thought the account belonged to the state of Israel," he said.
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