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The offical U.N. Twitter account had an unfortunate typo the day of an important vote on the Palestinian Authority. Offical U.N. account mistakenly tweets support for "1-state solution" in Middle EastSecretary-general actually supports two-state solutionThe Tweet was up for over 30 minutes before it was removed and a corrected tweet posted

(CNN) -- Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made a very unfortunate one-character typo.

"On Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 1-state solution," read the tweet.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban supports a two-state solution. The erroneous tweet was up for more than half an hour before it was taken down and a replacement tweet posted.

The @UN account has 1,129,488 followers and is part of an active social media program run by the U.N.

n Day of Solidarity w/ Palestinians, Ban Ki-moon stresses urgency of reaching 2-state solution j.mp/Shm6tH (corrected tweet)

— United Nations (@UN) November 29, 2012

The person responsible, U.N. information officer Nancy Groves, quickly acknowledged her mistake on Twitter and explained the reason for the delayed correction.

@acarvin @laurenist Sorry all -- terrible typo on my part and then went into a telephone conference call before catching it.

— Nancy Groves (@Nancy_Groves) November 29, 2012

Twitter is an increasingly fertile ground for diplomatic communications around the world. An interesting project from Agence France Presse maps and measures diplomatic tweets around the world on its E-Diplomacy Hub. The project pulls from a database of more than 6,000 Twitter accounts, including heads of state and activists, and maps the communications on a constantly updated map.

You can select a country to see top diplomatic Twitterers and hashtags. An index ranks the most active countries of the past 24 hours.

As Twitter becomes a more common place for countries to communicate, directly or passive-aggressively, typos and mistakes will probably become more commonplace.

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Poll-cruncher Nate SIlver has inspired a parody hashtag on TwitterSilver correctly predicted who would win all 50 states in Tuesday's presidential election

(CNN) -- You may not have heard of Nate Silver. But the statistician, who crunches political polls for The New York Times, is having a moment.

Silver has received a flood of acclaim since his blog, FiveThirtyEight.com, correctly predicted who would win all 50 states in Tuesday's presidential election, even as pundits were saying the race was "too close to call."

Named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine in 2009, Silver first gained fame for developing a statistical system for forecasting the performance of pro baseball players.

He's really good at math. And predicting things.

Now the jokesters of Twitter are paying homage with a #DrunkNateSilver hashtag that re-imagines him as a belligerent, know-it-all prognosticator.

Here are some of our favorites:

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