Online & Onscreen

So you’re a fan of Twitter. Well, you’ve probably got nothing on the good folks of Indonesia, who are taking their love affair with micro-blogging to new heights with a film called Republik Twitter. If you can speak Bahasa, you might enjoy the trailer, above.

Kuntz Agus’ film has nothing in common with David Fincher’s The Social Network. It’s a romantic comedy that examines how young people use Twitter and social media in general. Like Short Cuts or Love Actually, it features a range characters; a politician on the election trail, a journalist, a schoolgirl, workers in an ad agency. The twist is that they all use the microblogging service. No doubt, the pay off is that we’re all connected.

A Nation of Twitteratti

Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest user of Facebook and has been singled out by online research firm comScore as the most Twitter-addicted nation on the planet. Twitter has a 20.8% reach. In Ireland, the figure was 8%.

“The silent majority of middle class Indonesians who are so busy with their careers, with their family now have found the place where they can just say what they like, what they think and what they feel, online,” said Indonesian blogger Enda Nasution, explaining the platform’s popularity.

Republik Twitter opens after Valentine’s day, and will hopefully do better than 2010’s I Know What You Did on Facebook, which failed to set Indonesian box office tills rining.