The Twitter social network admitted having blocked the sending of messages via cell phones from Cuba towards its platform and denied that the Cuban government was responsible for it, the havanote.com Web site reported.

The company explained on Twitter that it hasn’t enough capacity to process the sending of long-code tweets via SMS and promised to solve the technical problem. In his statements to Prensa Latina news agency, amidst international versions around supposed censorship on the part of the island, Cuban Deputy Minister for Computing and Communications, José Luis Perdomo ruled out Cubans’ limitations to access social networks on the Internet and denounced obstacles for communications imposed by the US blockade.

“Cuba does not block the access of any citizen to the sending of messages to social networks on the Internet like Tweeter or Facebook; those are slanderous rumors spread about our country,” the Deputy Minister stated.

The article on havananote.com was written by Tomas Bilbao, former official of the George W. Bush administration, who had denounced the supposed Cuban censorship on the same Web site last week.
After the company’s message, Bilbao pointed out that “this incident shows the danger of drawing conclusions without first having all the evidence.”

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