Life in Retro(bel)grade

16-year-old Fran Kuseta, a seemingly proactive young man from Veli Losinj in Croatia, announced on his personal Twitter account after the closing of the first round of the fifth presidential election polls in Croatia on the evening of December 27th that he headed the social media campaign for one of the presidential candidates over recent months.*

The teenager, who describes himself as an “ambitious 16-year-old chap from Croatia” on his Twitter profile, sent out a tweet sometime after midnight local time saying, “I was the director of Social Media in the campaign of @NadanVidosevic. Expect a blog post soon.”

Nadan Vidosevic, formerly of the Croatian Democratic Union, ran in this 2009/2010 presidential election as an independent candidate and, although he did not receive enough votes to go on into the second round, carried a fairly high favorability in the polls during the campaign.

As promised, the young social media enthusiast, Fran Kuseta, published a post on his Posterous account the next morning, titled What, How and Why?, confirming the initial tweet and explaining some of the details of his three month long involvementin the social media portion of Vidosevic’s campaign, including the agreement made with campaign leaders not to reveal his age or identity for the duration of the campaign.

The Croatian youngster went on to state that he was not a political supporter of Vidosivic’s political views, but enjoyed working for the candidate’s campaign and would do so again if invited. Fellow Tweeters have noticed what Kuseta has confirmed through his Twitter account – that the young Croat was the only member of Vidosevic’s campaign headquarters that was not eligible to vote in this campaign.

*Note: This information has not yet been confirmed or denied by official sources from Vidosevic’s campaign headquarters.

**Update: Confirmation has been received from Krunoslav Vidic, former journalist and reputation manager from Croatia, while Fran Kuseta offered direct contact with the candidate’s spokesperson for confirmation.

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