Barack Obama ditches Twitter
Although very active on the site before the election, the president hasn't used Twitter once since he was inaugurated.
Since the early days of his campaign Barack Obama has always had a pretty solid online presence. The president pretty actively used Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter throughout his campaign to speak to voters, and now has Recovery.gov to help the public understand where all the stimulus money is going.
Before the election Obama's Twitter account had over 300,000 followers and over 264 updates. His tweets typically talked about where he was holding rallies, where you could check out live feeds of events, and encouraged people to get out an vote. Since he was inaugurated however, Obama hasn't used Twitter at all. His last tweet was on January 19th and encouraged people to volunteer in their area to honor Dr. Martin Luther King.
You would expect a president who does a weekly YouTube address to be able to keep up with typing 140 characters to the general public every now and then. Looking at his past tweets, they were more than likely all written by an intern or someone working with the campaign rather than Obama himself, but what happened to that person?
Twitter is growing in popularity everyday, in fact some people are referring to it as the "new YouTube" and perhaps long-term a rival for Google. It seems like it would be a great place to keep the public informed about what's going on in government, so it's interesting that Obama has suddenly gone silent.
Are you one of the 300,000 following Barack Obama on Twitter? Do you miss his tweets?
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Andrew Yu-Jen Wang (6:51 PM on Thu Mar 5, 2009)
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did-even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
"GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY" BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: "If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded." Oh wait-off the top of my head-I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
nostate
(10:48 AM on Tue Mar 17, 2009)
It's all just automated crap now on Twitter as far as the Obama-Nation now goes. Look...I'll prove it. Click on my name and you'll see that he even follows me. Who the hell am I?
Anonymous (11:48 PM on Wed Jun 17, 2009)
nostate sorry to burst your bubble but he's trying to save the world