Obama does first presidential 'ask me anything' chat on Reddit
President Obama and his staff are quite savvy when it comes to technology and social sites, in particular so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they turned to the social sharing site Reddit today. But it did. With little advance notice, Obama held an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) live chat, offering to take questions directly from the Reddit community.
"I am Barack Obama, President of the United States AMA," he posted on Reddit, adopting the sites terminology. Several Reddit moderators and Admins quickly chimed in to confirm that they've verified Obama's identity and that the post isn't part of some sort of prank. Reddit's general manager Erik Martin told TODAY.com that the site's staff was in contact with Obama's staff. Obama additionally posted a link to a tweet from his official Twitter account, pointing to that Reddit thread, along with a photo showing the president sitting at a laptop.
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A Reddit AMA is basically a question-and-answer free-for-all a staple of the Internet forum. Astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an AMA alum, famously described Reddit as a "raging community of people with boundless curiosity." From its humble beginnings, in which ordinary joes took questions about their extraordinary experiences, the Reddit AMA has grown into a global stage for scholars, authors and celebrities.
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