New Delhi, Feb 21 (Inditop.com) This is instant diplomacy in the twitter age. When Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa met Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor last week, a ministerial tweet-up followed. This was perhaps the first time there was real time reporting on a bilateral diplomatic meeting in India – by the participants themselves!
The two reported it to the world, just like any two avid twitter users, by photographing themselves on the camera phone. And then, it was uploaded on to twitter.
The Bahraini minister has been in regular touch with Tharoor over twitter. He had even had what he called as a ‘tripartite’ meeting over twitter when the Bahraini and Egyptian foreign ministers met at a cafe and then sent a friendly message to Tharoor.
