October 26, 2006 at 3:12 pmPutin received about 200 thousand SMS
President Putin received 187,000 SMS as part of the Direct Line with Russian President Vladimir Putin project. The greatest SMS activity was shown by residents of the Central and Volga federal districts, reports IA Regnum . According to Infon, this year the number of people wishing to participate in a dialogue with the president via SMS has grown by more than 50%. During the live broadcast, a special number received up to 12 messages per second.
According to political analyst Maxim Kanevsky, this data is a kind of signal to Russian officials. “Use modern means of communication when working with the population, because it is much more effective.” He said that only 97 thousand questions were asked on the Internet, while over 9 hours of operation of the SMS line it was twice as many.
According to political analyst Maxim Kanevsky, this data is a kind of signal to Russian officials. “Use modern means of communication when working with the population, because it is much more effective.” He said that only 97 thousand questions were asked on the Internet, while over 9 hours of operation of the SMS line it was twice as many.