2014-01-20

@Sweden is run by a different Swede each week. But what are the other @countries and @territories up to?

Africa
@Algeria "loves my country muchly" but not enough to tweet anymore. @Angola is a protected personal account. @Benin has only posted once. @Botswana shares news from Southern Africa. @BurkinaFaso is some dude in Portland. @Burundi hasn't tweeted yet, nor has @Cameroon or @CapeVerde. @CentralAfricanRepublic isn't on Twitter. @Chad is unsurprisingly not the country. @Comoros hasn't tweeted. Neither has @CoteDIvoire (or @IvoryCoast). @Congo exists, but you really want @DemRepCongo or @CongoRT. @Djibouti's been on hold for a long time. @Egypt IS NOT THE COUNTRY, OKAY? @EquatorialGuinea doesn't exist, and @Eritrea and @Ethiopia are suspended. @Gabon is silent and @Gambia is dormant. @Ghana is a tour guide. @Guinea is privately parked. @GuinneaBissau doesn't exist. Kenya is a woman. @Lesotho is a public one. @Liberia is protected, with a dead bio link. @Libya went silent in 2011. @Madagascar was parked by DreamWorks Animation. @Madeira wants you to visit. @Malawi is protected. @Mali brings you news. @Mauritania is empty. @Mauritius shares island news. @Morocco is quite active. @Mozambique is a missionary's protected account. @Namibia hasn't tweeted. @Niger tweeted twice in 2007. @Nigeria is suspended (for Twitter scams?), as is @Rwanda. @SaoTome and @Principe aren't the islands. @Senegal and @Seychelles are both silent, and @SierraLeone is suspended. @Somalia hasn't tweeted since 2008. @SouthAfrica is for tourists. SouthSudan covered 2010's elections, and @Sudan hasn't tweeted at all. @Swaziland is a Belgian. @Tanzania is on-topic but dormant. @Togo is a guy in Tokyo. @Tunisia is a protected placeholder. @Uganda is emo. @Zambia is conversational. @Zimbabwe is "listening to megans song."

Asia
@Abkhazia and @Afghanistan are suspended. @Azerbaijan says "South Azerbaijan is not Iran." @Bangladesh likes photos of the country. @Bhutan hasn't tweeted in awhile. @Brunei is suspended, and @Cambodia hasn't tweeted yet. @China has only tweeted six times. @HongKong is a guy in Hong Kong. @India is run by a site that now appears closed. @Indonesia is a news portal. @Japan is on hold. @Khazakhstan has failed to launch. @NorthKorea. @SouthKorea might be a joke. (@Korea is in Korean.) @Kyrgyzstan isn't doing much. @Laos is a guy in Nashville named Ray. @Macao is a tourist site. @Malaysia is "in no way affiliated with the government." @Maldives is a bit touristy. @Mongolia posted once in 2008. @Myanmar was spam from the start. @Nepal is a designer in Kathmandu. @SouthOssetia hasn't tweeted. @Pakistan is suspended. @Philippines is based in Manila. @Singapore is "the more relevant Tweets to Singapore." @SriLanka is "hosted by a citizen." @Taiwan hasn't tweeted yet. @Tajikistan stopped tweeting on his first day of work in 2009. @Thailand alternates between English and Thai. @TimorLEste weirdly tweets about movies, while @EastTimor is an Australian lawyer. @Turkmenistan covered the country until mid-2013. @Uzbekistan appears to be for sale. @Vietnam is suspended.

Europe
@AlandIslands went dormant in 2009. @Albania has been taken over by spammers, unsurprisingly. @Andorra is empty. @Armenia is protected. @Austria is possibly not official. @Belarus is newsy. @Belgium is empty. @Bosnia got sick and forgot about Twitter in 2008, while @Herzegovina never got started. @Bulgaria likes to retweet. @Croatia has tweeted intermittently. @Cyprus and @NorthernCyprus are tourism accounts aimed at the Brits. @CzechRepublic is Adam Koehler, and @CeskaRepublika isn't anything. Neither is @Denmark. @FaroeIslands is silent. @Estonia is relatively active. @Finland fills you in on Finnish name days. @France is French news. @Georgia is the wrong one; @GeorgiaRepublic is the right one, but dormant. @Germany mostly retweets. @Gibraltar isn't Gibraltar. @Greece is dormant.@Hungary is registered but that's it. @Iceland is something. @Ireland stole @Sweden's idea. @Italy is newsy. @Kosovo is spammy. @Latvia doesn't tweet. @Liechtenstein lives in Mexico. @Lithuania is official. @Luxembourg tweets regularly. @Macedonia protected, but links to a conspiracy. @Malta is constant news. @Moldova has a personal touch. @Monaco is suspended. @Montenegro is Leslie, not the country. @Netherlands is suspended. @Norway tweets news. @Poland is suspended. @Portugal is mostly about futbol. @Romania used to be videos; now it's the same questionable links as @Kosovo. @Russia is silent, and @SanMarino is too. @Serbia is "a place with too much history." @Slovakia signed up for Twitter in 2008. @Slovenia is pretty quiet. @Spain is for tourists. We already talked about @Sweden. @Switzerland is a news feed, as is @Turkey. @Ukraine is suspended. So is @UnitedKingdom, but @GreatBritain is verified. (@Scotland is nothing, @Wales is Carolyn, @Cornwall has been dormant a long time and @England is a test account. @Britain is a guy in Ann Arbor. @Guernsey hasn't tweeted, @IsleOfMan cut some wood in 2008, and @Jersey is spam.) @VaticanCity is suspended, but the @Pontifex is pretty active.

Middle East
@Bahrain is an activist. @Iran is a project. @Iraq has been suspended, but @IraqiKurdistan is just empty. @Israel's account is maintained by the Foreign Ministry's Digital Diplomacy Team. @Jordan is an American designer, not the country. @Kuwait is just some Kuwaiti. @Lebanon is a feed of Daily Star of Lebanon headlines. @Oman is Indonesian. @Palestine is a news aggregator. (@GazaStrip has only tweeted once, and @WestBank is in Chinese.) @Qatar waited six years between tweets. @SaudiArabia says "Peace upon you" in Arabic. @Syria stopped tweeting about the revolution in 2011. @Turkey tweets out Turkish Topix.com posts. @UnitedArabEmirates doesn't exist, and @UAE is out of service. @Yemen tweets all things Yemeni.

North America, Central America & the Caribbean
@Anguilla is dark. @Antigua is a guy who loves his island. @Aruba has been suspended. @Barbuda isn't much of anything. @Bahamas tweeted once in 2008. @Barbados is touristy. @Belize is an indie travel guide. @Bermuda is a triangle. @Bonaire is protected. @Canada was taken over by Canada in 2012, but they haven't done anything with it. @CaymanIslands has gone quiet. @CostaRica mostly aggregates other Costa Ricans' tweets. @Cuba has been suspended. @Curacao is protected. @Domenica is a Macedonian woman. @DominicanRepublic doesn't exist. @ElSalvador has been suspended. @Guadeloupe is an aggregator. @Greenland has tweeted twice in Japanese. @Grenada lives in Fort Worth. @Guatemala is a Methodist missionary. @Haiti is a photographer and teacher. @Honduras is a protected Montrealer. @Jamaica shares local news. @Martinique is a woman in San Francisco. @Montserrat is someone's first name. @Mexico retweets people. @NavassaIsland doesn't exist. @Nicaragua has been suspended, as has @Panama. @PuertoRico hasn't tweeted. @Saba is a Japanese woman who wants to be a cat. @SaintBarthélémy hasn't tweeted yet. @SaintKitts and @Nevis are empty, and @SaintKittsNevis is suspended. @SaintLucia is silent. Neither @SaintMaarten nor @SaintMartin is active. @SaintPierre is going swimming, but @Miquelon is an activist. @SaintVincent is neither the country nor the rocker you think it is, but @TheGrenadines just tweets travel deals. @SanAndres has only tweeted once, but @Providencia is a Brazilian beer. @SintEustatius has a population of over two thousand people! @TrinidadTobago hasn't tweeted yet, but @Trinidad is just chilling and @Tobago is a photographer. @TurksandCaicos has been hacked. @UnitedStates is for conservatives only, @US is a .us domainer, @USA is "USA facts," and then there's @America. @USVirginIslands shares island news.

South America
@Argentina is suspended, as is @Bolivia. @Brazil has World Cup fever. @Chile is a guy in Chicago who loves soccer. @Colombia is suspended. @Equador hasn't tweeted yet. @Galapagos tweeted once. @FalklandIslands is Malaysian? Neither @Guyana nor @FrenchGuiana has tweeted. @Paraguay and @Peru are suspended. @Suriname is a news feed about the country. @Uruguay and @Venezuela are suspended.

Australia, New Zealand & Oceania
@Australia is the official tourism account. @ChristmasIsland has been hacked. @CocosIslands hasn't tweeted. @CookIslands is a tourism account. @CoralSeaIslands doesn't exist. @EasterIsland is protected. @Fiji used to be a Japanese cat, but hasn't tweeted since 2007. @FrenchPolynesia is protected. @Guam is suspended. @Kiribati is silent. @MarianaIslands isn't sure how to use Twitter. @MarshallIslands is suspended. @Micronesia is a guy named Alfred. @Nauru is someone in Maryland. @NewCaledonia is an inactive tourist page. @NewZealand has written two cryptic tweets. @Niue is looking for a new job. @NorfolkIsland hasn't tweeted. @Palau is suspended. @PapuaNewGuinea's tweets are protected. @PitcairnIslands has remained silent. @Samoa used to retweet photos (@AmericanSamoa is suspended.) @SolomonIslands is suspended. @Tokelau was a bit raunchy. @Tonga lives in Chiba, Japan. @Tuvalu tweeted in German in 2007. @WakeIsland is a dude named Molokai. @WallisandFutuna is a resident of the islands. @Vanuatu is a protected "pacificxpat."

Antarctica
@Antarctica tweeted twice in 2007.

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