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Follow the White House on Twitter
Sure, the Obama administration has many problems to work out: Two wars, an economic crisis, and a global flu pandemic. But real progress can be summed up in 140 characters (or less): The White House is on Twitter. The microblogging site allows users to post short updates to anyone who chooses to follow them, from, say, the presidential Blackberry or the West Wing. And with almost 50,000 followers, it's not a bad start.
Obama isn't the first politician to use the social network medium: During his state of the union address, many members of Congress tweeted their way through his speech.
The Obama White House isn't new to social networking: The techie-in-chief insisted on keeping his Blackberry, broadcasts the weekly presidential address on YouTube, and has encouraged all government agencies to get on Facebook.
Time.com reported that the White House's first tweet was not about Michelle Obama's latest outfit or the impromptu presdidential burger run. It was an update on swine flu. As far as we know, that post didn't come from Joe "stay out of enclosed spaces" Biden. Stay tuned.
Filed under: Social Networking, Barack Obama
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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