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

References

^ 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.
^ al-Mughrabi, Nidal (Aug 11, 2014). "Gaza teen's war tweets make her a social media sensation". Reuters. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ Smith, Alexander. "Palestinian Teen Farah Baker Live Tweets Nighttime Bombardment in Gaza". NBC News. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ Sanghani, Radhika (29 Jul 2014). "Teen girl 'live tweets Gaza bomb attack'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2014.

External links

Official Twitter Account

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