OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2011. SCF Group news is now available via Twitter. This follows requests from the media and our sailors, who increasingly follow SCF news and use popular social networks.

SCF Group is planning to tweet brief information updates in addition to information which will be available at large on the Company’s website. Twitter will also be used for less official topics, which aside from our official press statements, are considered of interest to those who follow SCF Group.

Twitter is becoming more and more popular among the Russian Internet users. SCF Group, along with many companies, uses Twitter as an extra channel for information, news and updates. Among well-known Russian companies posting on Twitter there are Sberbank, VTB, Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosnano, Rosatom and others.

Famous Twitter users are believed to include President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev; President of the United States, Barak Obama; leaders of Brazil, Argentina, and Sweden, as well as American congressmen, Russian MP’s, prominent actors, sportsmen, businessmen and journalists.

Twitter is one of the most popular microblog networks in the world and simultaneously is one of the most visited websites. As of January, 1 this year, Twitter had more than 200 million users. Users on the site publish short text messages using the web-interface, sms or instant messaging.
 
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