Burma Strange News (English Version)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to use Facebook

(From: Facebook)

Burma's pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said she wants to join other pro-democracy activists by using Facebook. This is the first time that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her desire to use Facebook after her previous announcement to use Twitter a few months ago.

The pro-democracy icon said she finally has her first Internet connection at her Rangoon home, and while she has paid more than $1,000 to a junta-controlled company for the privilege, the connection is too slow to access social networks.

Having an intention to congratualate the Burmese iT expert and promote Burmese words world-wide, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her willingness to use "Twitter" just before her release from house-arrest. At that time, she was silent on the Facebook.

"Twitter is a Burmese word that is derived from Twot-tee Twitter which is the same meaning in English. That's why, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi wanna use my Twitter" said Daw See, a Burmese old lady who is the founder of Twitter Inc in USA. Her name "Jack Dorsey" is the corrupt-pronounciation of the original Burmese name Daw See.

Ma Zagar Bauk (her name is mistakenly pronounced as Mark Zuckerberg), another Burmese young lady, was unhappy at that time for the news about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who was not interested in her Facebook.

"I was upset for that when I heard about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's wish to use Twitter, not my Facebook", 26-year-old Burmese young lady told Burma Strange News. "Now, I am glad to hear that Daw Suu wants to use Facebook", she added.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Old Burmese Woman- Now the Most 'Liked' Living Person on Facebook

Burmese Rapper "A May Nann" (Photo: sodahead.com)

An old Burmese woman, A May Nann (အေမနန္း), (her corrupted American pronounciation is "Eminem") might have lost out on her bid for the Grammys' Album of the Year, but that hasn't weakened her following one bit. The old rapper continued her recent siege on social networks and digital media by officially overtaking Lady Gaga as the most "liked" artist on Facebook. With over 28,883,000 "likes" at press time, A May Nann has narrowly surpassed Lady Gaga's "like" tally of 28,872,000, and with A May averaging over a half-million "likes" a week according to FameCount, the rapper will only widen the gap between herself and Gaga. .

Lady Gaga attained the "most-liked person" distinction in July of last year, when she overtook the leader of the free world as most-liked. (At the time, President Obama had 9.4 million Facebook fans; Gaga had 10 million.) .

This means A May Nann is more well-"liked" than both Lil Wayne and Oreo's, but not as well-"liked" as Michael Jackson, who leads all Facebook "likes" with 29.1 million. At this pace however, A May Nann should steal the King of Pop's FB throne in approximately one day..

Even though A May Nann is now the Queen of Facebook "likes," she still heavily trails Lady Gaga in the Billion Views Club on YouTube. Earlier this week, clicks on A May Nann's music videos combined to reach 10 digits, with Slim Shady becoming only the third artist behind Gaga and Justin Bieber to reach a billion views. But A May Nann still trails Gaga's total view count by more than 190 million. While Bieber owns the record for most YouTube views with 1.34 billion (Gaga's got 1.19 billion), has some major work to do on the Facebook front: His 21.8 million "likes" trail both Gaga and A May Nann by nearly seven million. In fact, Lil Wayne, with 20.4 million "likes," threatens to overtake Bieber on Facebook in the near future.

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