(For a special report on the discussion of the debt, EXT6).
July 31 (Bloomberg) - President Barack Obama is urgent Republicans to change their minds in the debt ceiling debate 140 characters at a time.The President put his polity to work in the social network last week, mobilization of supporters in Twitter Inc. for the Washington discussions about increasing the federal debt limit.9.4 Billion followers, @ barackobama, feed of Twitter's campaign for President, is the third most followed in service, between stars of pop Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber and Britney Spears, Katy Perry, according to fanpagelist.com.A day after the campaign of Obama assistants published more than 100 messages Twitter followers to urge their legislators to reach a compromise on the roof of the debt Obama Twitter presiónCampa?a cylinder feed had a registration as of 7 pm Eastern time yesterday. The end of the Twitter blitz came as lawmakers attempted break a stalemate and Obama held a meeting at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden, majority leader of the Senate Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat and House Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat.The minority message lone was released midday and includes a link to the direction of weekly radio's President urging lawmakers to reach a compromise bipartisan to raise the 14.3 trillion in debt of $ per Twitter BlitzCampaign helpers of 2 August. used the site to flood supporters July 29 as the House of representatives was headed for a vote on a Republican plan to raise the debt ceiling. The House Bill passed that day only on the basis of Republican support, 218-210. The Senate, later killed continuing stagnation in the discussion of the debt ceiling.Obama had already threatened to veto the Bill when he went before White House microphones to ask voters "to members of Congress know" how they feel. "Make a phone call."?Send an email. "Tweet, said.""Keep the pressure on Washington".In the course of the day, Obama campaign assistants had posted Twitter messages, some espacian apart, giving the addresses of more than 230 Republican legislators Twitter just a minute. The Obama fans were urged to put in contact with the Republicans in support of Senate legislation to increase the authority of the Government debt and make a segment of the controlled democratic deficit.Boehner MessageObama is not alone in the competition for capital of 140 characters or less: Speaker of House Republican John Boehner of Ohio, before the vote on the House yesterday rejected a Senate plan to raise the debt ceiling, issued this Twitter message: "DOA: @ SenatorReid bill does not hold in the House (and Senate?)"Not everyone was a fan of the blitz of message from the President. Obama Twitter feed campaign lost 33,243 followers on July 29, according to Twitter counter, a Web site that tracks statistics for more than 10 million users of Twitter. 7 P.m. Washington time yesterday, the site had won 10,786 followers, according to the Twitter counter. "Tweet your Republican party legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan commitment to the debt crisis," said a message of Obama campaign on July 29. "Massachusetts voters: Twitter's @ USSenScottBrown and invite him to undertake a balanced solution of deficit," said another, referring to Republican Senator of the Estado.Mientras directives to get in touch with legislators Republicans came from the campaign of Obama Twitter account, communication director for the Casa Blanca Dan Pfeiffer has been using Twitter for days and discussion of legislatorsexperts and voters on the issue of the issue of the deuda-techo. "Silly little Gimmick'Representative Trent Franks, Republican of Arizona, and one of the objectives of the campaign of Twitter, called a"little silly gimmick"movement." "You said that Obama should have lived longer directly with the Republicans in the House and put the specific aspects of deficit reduction in paper."I hope that the President would be Tweet us, "said Franks." "He is AWOL on this debate."Twitter campaign Obama explosions also set a series of broadcasts reprisals. 'No Ronald reagan' "Obama President is not Ronald Reagan," said Representative Joe Walsh, a Republican from Illinois, in a message of Twitter.Senador Dan Coats, a Republican from Illinois, told his supporters in a Twitter message: "Hoosiers: tweet of @ BarackObama and ask him what his plan."According to Rachael Horwitz, a spokesman for the world's largest United States microblogging service, based in San Francisco Twitter posts 200 million messages each day and has more than 200 million registered users.Twitter Inc. was no. 4 in June in United States between social networks, with 30.6 million users, according to ComScore Inc. "That was 14 percent from the previous month and an increase of 31 percent from a year earlier, ComScore said.It is exciting about Twitter is another way to have an ongoing dialogue among many Americans across the country, "said Macon Phillips, the managing director of digital strategy, which administers @ WhiteHouse, the official Twitter of the White House, which has 2,306,503 followers."Ronald Yaros, Professor of new media and mobile journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, said as Twitter becomes a means of communication which could play an important role in the mobilization of voters and Obama success is in use in the debate on the debt ceiling will be monitored by other campaigns.The personal presidential campaign and White House advisers, said Yaros, the goal is not only to be Obama to mobilize supporters but that followers becomes the word and use this as a stage in the process of networking." "" It is a very effective and efficient way to get the word out and leave the network of existing followers become disciples, without waiting for turn that television camera, said Yaros. ""-With the assistance of Brian Womack in San Francisco and Richard Rubin in Washington. Editors: Joe Sobczyk, Don Frederick
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