French election provokes jokes, japes and cryptic messages on Twitter
countries attempt to impose censorship on the reported results led to the mockery and the network of micro-blogging challenge
France's efforts to prevent the premature leak of the first round of presidential elections in the world down with Twitter teasing, jokes and cryptic coded messages reminding the second world war radio communications. "Holland Hungary qualify for the second step," said a tweet in a game on behalf of the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande and origin of the father of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Trying to enforce a 1977 law that imposed a blockade on the dissemination of results, projections and exit polls before the polls closed at 20:00 last, the authorities threatened to to a fine of ? 75,000 (£ 61,000) per violation.
But official warnings stimulated the pleasure and challenge with a profusion of fake and false messages in the network of microblogging, where national borders no longer exist.
The March of communications technology has made the law look increasingly like the Maginot line of anti-tank defenses which France constructed along its borders in the 1920s, n ' was unable to prevent the invasion of German tanks in 1940.
some tweets, even referred to encrypted messages transmitted by the Free French Forces Radio London for resistance fighters in France during World War II.
Only two of 10 candidates in the first vote on Sunday will go to a runoff on May 6, in which conservative Sarkozy plans to meet with the Dutch center-left, a big favorite polls.
Twitter users have a field day inventing new names for candidates, news results and reports imaginary unverifiable official partial results from remote areas overseas where voting took place Saturday.
- "Observers returning from Syria, Russian tanks left at dawn, because on arrival in Paris at 20h" read one entry, alluding to a possible victory for the left and the closing time of polling.
- Other Holland included
- alias "Gouda", the "Flan", a sticky toffee pudding that looks like one of his nicknames, and more transparent, "Rose of Corrèze," that combines the socialist color, with Holland rural district in central France. For Sarkozy, which includes the platform "heel," referring to the slope of Sarkozy by shoes that give the president some small extra centimeters in the photographs, "Rolex" in the blink of an look at his fondness for wearing flashy wrist, and "goulash", a Hungarian recipe.
left-wing leader Jean-Luc Melenchon was labeled as "red pepper" by a micro-message sender.
Some messages unofficial partial results or plans to send the owners of results using the real names of candidates, but their scores erased or buried in a mixture of numbers and characters.
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