With , it really wasn't much of a surprise to see some enterprising individuals take advantage of the popularity and create a central area to index all our local tweets. So, the guys at Dubai-based CloudAppers decided to do just that, launching . In the week or so that UAETweets has been online, it's already indexed more than 900 Twitter users and 44,000 Twitter messages. Not bad, given the UAE only has about 5.600 users. I had the chance to interview the website's founder, Baher al Hakim, via e-mail about the site, the results of which are after the jump. <i><b>How did you come up with the concept for UAE Tweets? What was the inspiration behind it?</b></i> <i><b>How long did it take you to create the website?</b></i> <i><b>What has the response been from the UAE Twitter community? Have you done any publicity or is it just word-of-mouth through Twitter?</b></i> <i><b>What is your perception of how Twitter is being used in the Middle East? We've previously published stories that it's not really a big enough deal over here yet. Do you agree with that?</b></i> <i><b>What are your next steps for UAETweets? Have you derived a potential monetisation plan for the site? Are you planning on adding any partnerships with Arabic Twitter sites? Or is there a possibility to mash-up the API for another site? I'd personally love to include it in my TweetDeck stream.</b></i>