Obama takes message to public via Twitter
Jul-08-2011

US President Barack Obama replied to a barrage of questions about the economy from Twitter users on Wednesday and personally fired off his first "tweet" from the White House.
"I am going to make history here as the first president to live tweet," Obama said as he kicked off an event billed as a "Twitter Town Hall" from the East Room of the presidential mansion.
Obama, who pioneered the use of social media during his 2008 election campaign, sent a message to his official @whitehouse account from a laptop emblazoned with the presidential seal.
"In order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep - bo," Obama wrote, signing the tweet with his initials.
Obama took a fair bit of time to compose and send the message, prompting Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the moderator for the town hall meeting, to joke: "It's only 140 characters."
Dorsey then read out questions for the president submitted by Twitter users across the country using the hashtag #AskObama.
The event was held in front of an audience of 140 guests, including over 30 followers of the @whitehouse Twitter account, and streamed live from the White House at askobama.twitter.com.
Instead of tweeting his answers, Obama answered verbally as White House aides summarized his replies in 140 characters or less on the Twitter feeds @townhall and @whitehouse, which has more than 2.24 million followers.
The Twitter town hall was billed an opportunity to question the president about jobs and the economy and nearly all of the selected queries were on the subject.

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