The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter' | Communications Major | Scoop.it
From www.theatlantic.com - April 8, 2014 6:24 PM

The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was, basically, a Cuban version of Twitter, the Associated Press reported Thursday. ZunZuneo, as it was called, permitted Cubans to broadcast short text messages to each other. At its peak, ZunZuneo had 40,000 users.