Social media fail: @BarackObama loses 36,000-plus Twitter followers in barrage

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

Tags: congressional delegations, contacting your legislators, old adageThe first U.S. head of state who could be considered social media savvy, President Barack Obama may have taken his latest Twitter-targeted political push a little too far, if his followers are to be listened to.

In a brief statement about the debt ceiling Friday morning, Obama urged, "If you want to see a bipartisan compromise -- a bill that can pass both houses of Congress and that I can sign -- let your members of Congress know. Make a phone call. Send an email. Tweet."

Obama certainly took his own advice: His Twitter account, @BarackObama, sent out a barrage of 113 tweets with the contact info for the congressional delegations of all states, plus the hashtag #compromise to his more than 9 million followers.

Tech site Mashable crunched the numbers, and deduced that in the five hours of Obama's tweet-spree, the president lost about 37,000 followers by sending out information that was largely irrelevant to a great number of them, and clogging their feeds.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/30/social-media-fail-barackobama-loses-36000-plus-twitter-followers-in-barrage/

[DURHAM D]

1. Proof tht Obama is losing the message war. nt

[Itchinjim]

3. Pffffft.

[NYC Liberal]

2. Yeah, that was dumb. I almost always unfollow any account that does

that.

[Kind of Blue]

4. Truly a ridiculous story - I wonder if they'll print

what happened net. http://twittercounter.com/compare/BarackObama/month/followers