Farah Baker

Farah Baker is a Palestinian girl who become popular by her live tweets about Israel attacks of 2014 July in Gaza.[1][2] Farah is 16 years old as of August 2014 and she survived three wars. She describes herself as Anne Frank of today. Her tweets become a social network phenomenon and Baker's following on Twitter has jumped from 800 to 166,000 in a few days.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Bora, Kukil (August 11, 2014). "Farah Baker, A Gaza Teenager, Becomes Social Media Phenomenon By Tweeting About War". International Business Times. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ↑ al-Mughrabi, Nidal (Aug 11, 2014). "Gaza teen's war tweets make her a social media sensation". Reuters. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Smith, Alexander. "Palestinian Teen Farah Baker Live Tweets Nighttime Bombardment in Gaza". NBC News. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Sanghani, Radhika (29 Jul 2014). "Teen girl 'live tweets Gaza bomb attack'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2014.

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