Refugee Camp Gets First Street Named After Twitter Account

In what is likely the world's first such occurrence, a street in the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank has been named after a Twitter account. @arjanelfassed tweetstreet was named for @arjanelfassed, the Twitter account of Arjan El Fassed, who named the street through Dutch Web site Jouw Eigen Straatnam. The site sells the right to temporarily name one of 200 streets in the camp for $146, donating the proceeds to the Palestinian Child Care Society (PCCS), which sponsors after-schoolSource: Switched RSS Feed