Washington (CNN) – It's hard to explain it in 140 characters or less. President Obama's re-election Twitter account lost thousands of followers Friday after his 2012 campaign tried to use the social media site to turn up the heat on Republicans over the debt ceiling.
The account, @BarackObama, sent out scores of tweets Friday listing the Twitter handles for dozens of GOP members of Congress.
"If you live in Wisconsin, ask @SenRonJohnson http://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis," one tweet said.
Earlier in the day, the president called on Americans to use Twitter, as well as other forms of communication, to send a message to Congress to end the stalemate.
"Let your members of Congress know, make a phone call, send an e-mail, tweet, keep the pressure on Washington and we can get past this," the President said.
But the tweet offensive may have backfired. Or is that back-tweeted?
According to the website Twitter Counter, the account lost tens of thousands of followers Friday.
White House reporters and the president's critics questioned whether Mr. Obama's re-election campaign was spamming its more than nine million followers.
"Bam's spam? President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 33,000 followers," the Twitter account @whitehousepresscorps tweeted as of 6pm Friday.
An Obama re-election campaign official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, brushed off the account's losses, arguing there's a "natural burn rate" any time you send an email or tweet.
Members of Congress tweeted back their frustrations.
"Dear #Obamatons you are ruining my interactions with thoughtful democrats with this spam. And U R hurting your President," tweeted Rep. Dennis Ross R-Florida.
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Whine and cry - the republicans are just like the speaker - wah wah wah wah wah
Kill the damn thing! Get rid of Twitter, textinng and any other media that has no business related application. Maybe we can go back to enjoying movies, going shopping or even walking without being violated by these addicts of that technology.
Too many tweets isn't near as serious as the GOP selling us down the drain.
33K out of 9 million?
He can afford the loss.
How appropraite, Obama using Twitter to create Obama Flash Mobsters. Keeping right in character if you askme.
I am a sinior 85 years old and needd my ssi thats the only money that i get to take care of me monthley with out that I am lost.So please solve this proublem asap .hope this comment gets to someone with interest
how many does he gain/loose normally? How has he ever had an in/decrease of that size before?
I was under the impression that President NObama could (would?) not stoop any lower. Boy, was I wrong! Now the NObamatons will need to start making excuses for him; just like his lapdogs and the mainstream media.
Shame, shame!
This is all the fault of the tea party.
They are un-American and rude
33,000 ex-followers of the President? That should be a LOT higher. This guy is a clown, plain and simple. But, then the Congressional leadership from both parties are just as guilty of being clowns. Don't they care that they're holding the people that hired them by the family jewels? I know that if they don't do something by 9/1...I'll be among those broke! And if that's the case, I'm not voting for the incumbent, even if said incumbent comes over and personally offers to kiss my backside in the middle of Indianapolis or in front of 125,000 screaming fans at the Indy 500 in 2012.
Guys...you'd better post that article...There's no offensive words in there...
To "tweet or not to tweet....that is the question!"
I don't mind that I received the tweets. I do mind that I would need to follow my cut-cap-balance-supporting twit of a Republican representative in order to tweet to him. He's no one I need to hear from and I mean EVAH. But yeah, hindsight, one link to all congressional Twitter accounts would probably have come with way less burnout. Live and learn.
Yea, I contact my congress member, to tell them to support Boehner's plan. I live in Imperial Beach, CA, a mostly democratic district with one Susan Davis as the House rep. Obviously, Feinstein and Boxer are California's senators. I'll let them all know I want Boehner's plan to pass, I want them to support a balanced budget constitutional amendment and tell them that they had better info the President to put social security recipients, veterans, military and the American people before bond holders, China and any other creditors in the event of a partial government default. Understand CNN?
Tweeting is not my thing...I could care less what these mindless Republicans do.
Where was your tweet to Congress and the American people before spending billions of dollars on Libya?
Fake Phoney and Fraud
lol i like fried chicken and watermelon. and cool aid. and old classy black women,
I contacted all my elected officials and told them to balance the budget don't give in to your scare tactics and do what's right for us and not just for you.
HA HA HA HA HA
Lost 33,00 out of 9 million? OOOOOh! I didn't see anything partisan about it. Asking Americans to contact their Senators and Congressmen is a bad thing? Or it's fine on TV but not Twitter? I don't get it. Is "thoughtful Democrats" a code word for those who agree with him(Ross)? He'd just as soon not hear from anyone who disagrees with him? Sounds about right.
its a sad day in America!
Tell me it ain't so.
Tell me it aint so.
They are done, because everyone got sick of it, and took themselves off the feed.
I would like to know what part of my social security check would the Republicans like to cut? the part for food, medicine,
the heat that keeps the home warm, or maybe the blood work that is paid out of pocket left over, that medicare did not pay?
With out social security,like so many of us, I guss we should all just rot on the vine like one politician from PA said!
I gess the golden years is for the rich not the poor.
Wait, how is this a backfire? Given the number of his followers, he didn't even lose 1%.
NO, Sir – Rep. Ross - you and your friends on the Republican side are hurting the President - because you
have no intention of working for what most Americans want -- you and your friends in the House have done
nothing to help – nothing but obstruct anything our President wants. Don't give me that tale about 'interactions'
with Democrats - you have no intention of doing anything constructive.
REP Dennis ross is an idiot!!!!
Chances are that the 33K lost were already hardcore Repubs and those brainwashed by Fox News over the years. It's a small percentage, but not on CNN apparently, which made a big deal of the crowds greeting Palin in PA...turned out to be like 100 people.
Obama is a completely useless IDIOT!!!!! He is so bad that he can't even be used as a bad example......
This man is a fool and not long for our pain n the Capital.
they need to think about how people how are on s.s are going the live with out a way to pay there bills and eat. If you all on the hill there would loss your pay cheacks and health care lets not for get that. I don't have health care but the pople that get a mounthly cheack that may not get one will have to go with out there health care they i not have to money to pay the mountly payment. think of others .
'Bams spam'? Seems more like the twits who tweet are just tired of hearing about the debt debacle.
Thats the problem with this Whitehouse crew. They think they are in a country dominated by mod rule and if they can create the illusion of mass support, they will win the argument.
Omabatons? What a mature term. Sounds a lot like what the paid bots on message boards call us. Is there something you'd like to tell us, Representative Ross?
Wow, those 33,000 just have to be racists I suppose..
Our nation has 9.2% UNEMPLOYMENT, record long term UNEMPLOYMENT, nation destroying levels of debt run up by Obama, and the debt ceiling mess. Yet, Obama has NO PLAN, all he does is blame and whine. Obama's idea of Presidential Leadership seems limited to "Tweet your Congressman"? That is why we elected Obama President? With massive UNEMPLOYMENT and a filing economy the best he can do is tell us to "Tweet Our Congressman"?????? How absurd. Can anybody imagine a FDR, a JFK, or a Reagan with UNEMPLOYMENT at 9.2%, the economy in shambles, and a debt ceiling crisis exercising Presidential Leadership by saying "Tweet your Congressman"? Obama is such a loser!
President Obama,
PLEASE do not give in to the GOP demands I am a middle class American and I am tired of being robbed from the rich hold your ground and vote democratic 2012!! (:
I was very happy to see the tweeter accounts of the representatives in my state. It saved me a lot of time. Besides, even people who don't like someone will follow just to see what they are up to. I know I do that and stop following them when I can't take it anymore.
bueller? bueller?
This guy, Obama, Has got to go. He is a joke and an utterly pathetic failure as president.
Hey, it's not like they're mass-emailing everyone. Everyone on that list chose to hit the "follow" button.
He lost about .3%, is that really news and would it be if he wasn't the first black president? What a joke the so called liberal media is, mainly because it's not liberal
Some guy at 7-11 asked me if I had some spare change. I said, "Give O'bama a call if you want some change buddy."
I feel like I went to sleep and work up back in jr. high school. Will somebody please come get me when the adults return?
A tweet from a twit!
This is a very clear sign that Obozo is going to be a 1 term EPIC FAIL and will LOSE to Sarah Palin in 2012. Palin has more followers on Twitter and Facebook than Obozo and she will be our next and greatest President.
Is he still trying to be cutting edge and cute with his social networking routine? Give it up already!
Why is it "your president"? Do the 8 years of Bush not count because I don't accept him as the president of the United States? I'm so tired of party politics, that's not what our country was to be about, and it's really screwing us over big time.
I really would say this isn't the complete story – do some Twitter searches for the reps he asked constituents to contact and it's pretty overwhelming how many people got involved. I'm sure more than 30-40-50k even and seriously losing 36,000 followers is just over a third of a percent of people who probably weren't supporters anyway. Personally I contacted my rep and began following BO for the first time.
Odumbo should be arrested for cyber terrorism.
So what! This isnt even news. The amount of followers he lost doesn't even equate to 0.4% of his total follwers so this isn't a big deal. The followers he lost were probably not true supporters anyways. More like accounts set-up to up to see what he tweets to his true supporters.
bye Obama, finally people are seeing the light. Shadiest of all those in Washington.
Obama's still a tweetheart as far as I am concerned. I think he rocks. I want him to kick butt in the next election.
Good Idea in Principle, but because tweeting only allows about 160 characters a few hundred tweets were necessary. This may have been annoying for some, but I am happy to now have my representatives twitter accounts. I hope they listen to their constituents.
Not really surprised by this at all. Not only do they need a do not mail list, but apparently a do not tweet list. No one likes spam. It's annoying and like shouveling S*** to deal with. Everyone of these guys should learn not to do it.
Rep Ross should not have called them Obamatons. They are more frequently referred to as O-bots and Obama drones. They have no thoughts or ideas of their own, they just think/know what Obama wants them to think and know.
Tweeting like that is completely useless. Every tweet was for a few people only, yet it showed up in everybody's time line. To me it looked like computer output going wrong. All those messages obscured other messages. There is no way to filter messages in Twitter so I unsubscribed.
You guys know that it's not spam when the user has opted in on multiple levels right? Just checking 'cuz it sounds like the person writing this article doesn't grasp the Internet basics at all.
The GOP/TP shows itself for what they really are: The party of „NO, HELL NO!“ never mind the consequences. How some people find that “attractive” or “responsible” behavior for the future is hard to understand! Shame on people that just to oppose the (black) President push the American and World economies over the brink!
"ruining my interactions with thoughtful democrats with this spam" HEY – Tweets ARE spam of mind-stuff.
At least we finally have a President who wants to ENGAGE with Americans, as opposed to just sending them off to fight a war for his big oil/big war machine buddies.
Unbelievable. The president thinks he can tweet his way out of this mess.
"Dear #Obamatons you are ruining my interactions with thoughtful democrats with this spam. And U R hurting your President," tweeted Rep. Dennis Ross R-Florida.
Rep. Ross, unless you live in a foreign country, Barack Obama is OUR President. If you can't respect the position, maybe you should seek another line of work.
Rep. Dennis Ross (R) Florida. Mr Obama is YOUR president as well, sir.
"Tens of thousands" of followers, huh? I'd wager that the President's twitter account was hacked, especially considering the ONLY comment associated with this story is a negative one from a rethugliban who immediately started name calling (yes, I realize I just name-called, but it started with a rethugliban congressjerk.
I support the President but I just don't tweet. it is better to get out and talk to people
LOL!!! Maybe the prez should have used his teleprompter when tweeting!!! Or, maybe people finally see that it's all about HIM and not the country. Love the loss of followers. Maybe we can garner some HOPE to save this country from the cliff afterall.
This clown is the worst president ever!
Funny, from those tweets, I then was able to tweet my congressperson, so I was thankful.
oboza is getting flushed
Affirmative Action Figure's epic failure
I don't get it.
One more example of just what an idiot Obummer is – he should be run out of town tarred and feathered.
For the math challenged out there, 33K out of over 9M is approximately 1/3 of 1%. It seems a bit of a stretch to describe this as a "backfire".
This president has created a great divide in this country with his political tactics.
He may not have created the problems he has been handed, but he is not the right person to fix them.
With each passing inanity, I find myself more convinced that the president thinks he's a character on TV and is therefore willing to read or say whatever they give him because he thinks the script writers have it all figured out long-term. He just doesn't seem to grasp that this is all real, and really important.
Gee, I remember a similar comment made about the completion of a task by a past president that the media jumped all over...."Mission Accomplished". Where's the extreme media coverage now?
Obama has hold progressive as well as needy Black People as his slave in order to vote for him in 2012. Talk about Change he can bring.
Oh snap! Mr. "I'll United Politicians From Both Sides of the Aisle When You Elect Me As President" is crashing and burning with these budget talks. How funny is it that neither he NOR the Democrats have yet to present THEIR BUDGET?? Just too funny. Worst President in history – bar none. Obama, Reid and Pelosi turned our fiscal affairs upside down in less than 2 years. THANK GOD the American people spoke in RECORD FASHION in Nov 2010 and said "No Mas"! Can you imagine if the Dems had a majority in the Congress even today. We'd be broke in a couple of years.
I feel like some South Side Chicago loser moved into my house and took over my budget....and then told me that he wanted me to spend more and more of my money on things I don't need. Then tells me to go out and get a second job to pay for all the reckless spending. Here's an idea....STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY!!!!!
Wonder if Michelle is proud of her country yet? Can you believe we have a First Lady who feels that way???!!! No other First Lady in history has EVER made a comment like that about our country. Outrageous!
Serves Obumbels right!!
nowadays, this is the only way to reach some voters!
I loved it! If he lost followers on twitter then they weren't supporters of his in the first place. Obama for President in 2012!
The rest of the world is watching America with great interest – kind of like when you watch a car crash....
The vast majority of Americans want to see tax increases included in the debt discussions. Therefore there is nothing unreasonable about the vast majority of Americans contacting the GOBPbaggers to tell them to stop playing their little political terrorism games while protecting the greedy and not the needy. Keep making those calls and sending those emails folks!
It is time to consider another democrat to run against Obama in 2012. He can't lead and he can't win.
Twitter isn't for mass marketing. Once again Obama and his advisors screw up. 18 months to go. I hope the next guy is more experienced.
How do we know that the followers were Obama supporters in the first place just because you are a follower doesn't mean that you support the person you are following if he didn't have support the phone lines on the hill wouldn't have been jammed up stop the spin its not working
Well, if this idiotic measure is being used to gauge such an important issue as the Debt ceiling, then I guess I have to start a twitter account. I SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT COMPLETELY ON THIS.
I am grateful I do NOT have a twitter account. So not only will it be robotcalls come election time, but it will be twitterbot tweets come election time as well. Ugh politics sucks.
But how many people contacted their congressmen, none? 100,000? Without that information, the content of this article really is meaningless. Or at least have a comparison. How many congressional newsletter emails induce people to unsubscribe. I just unsubscribed to John Cornyn's because I'm done with him.
Why doesn't he tweet his plan????
Sounds like sabotage.
I don't tweet but I probably should learn because I might have been able to reach my representatives yesterday if I had tweeted them! When I phoned, I got a busy signal or a message telling me to call back later when the volume of calls went down.
At a time like this, you ought to be able to reach them and if tweeting is how you can do it, then I'm all for it!
Mr. Obama is a radical beyond anything we have seen in the White House EVER yet CNN ignores it, and actually protects and promotes him. It appears the shit is now hitting the fan economically and socially and when Mr. Obama goes down next year he will be taking his sycophants such as CNN with him.
The heartbreak of all the Debt Crisis issue is what it has done in dividing this great country. Our President has by his speeches and actions placed a wedge between our people. Instead of bringing everyone together, identifying the main problem and allowing the country to join together to face the crisis, he has tried to blame and humiliate half the nation. Basically he wants to get another 4 years in the White House, but at what cost?
The debt has to be diminished. This country cannot continue borrowing more and more money.
Lets start taxing imports, make it lucrative to manufacture in America. Lower personal taxes so more money can be spent. Make sure that every citizen pays tax, no matter how small an amount. Reduce the size of government. Normalize the salaries paid the public servants. Encourage Oil drilling and the reduction of energy costs. Control the price of basic foods supplies. Cap the profits on essential products, ie gasoline et al.
Pay teachers the salaries they deserve. Improve access to hospitals and medical help. and the list goes on and on.
AND IN FUTURE, LET THE PRESIDENT SWEAR ALLEGIENCE TO THE COUNTRY AND BE FORCED TO BREAK FROM WHATEVER PARTY PUT HIM IN POWER. HE WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE PARTY.
What a waste of a leader...tweeting - pleeeease.
The President remains the only person dealing with the debt crisis behaving like a responsible leader. As the Republicans play politics and defend the wealthiest Americans only my life savings erodes away. The Tea Party is holding America hostage with their radical approach at destroying the American government – and Republicans bow down to this group of angry bigots.
I have never in my life experienced such a low life US president–and affixing that moniker to the person denigrates the name, the office and the USA.
He gained me!
It serves him right! How childish can a President be? Calls for bi-partisanship, yet Tweets to bash Republicans. Just where is his plan? He is more worried about his fund raiser next week and birthday party. Democrats want 2 things: Unlimited Spending with more borrowed money.
Obama is a horrible person, he is a person you would not like if you met him. He is an arrogant jerk.
Obama is hoping that Congress resolves this problem ASAP for him--he has a birthday party to attend, and a vacation in Martha's Vineyard coming up. Plus, he probably swears to himself every night-when he thinks about how many golf outtings he has missed.
This Repulican bill to have a balanced budget will not work as stated below.
I have 3 major problems with this bill.
1.- The Balanse budget is huge: We would no longer be able to Declare National emergencies.
A.- This would mean the states could no longer have a Balance Budget because they would have to pay for the Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, or floods.
B.- We would have to dismantle FEMA. The states could no longer complain that FEMA was slow.
2. – The defense Department could no longer be used. It would take 2/3 vote to reply to attacks such as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.
3. – There are NO provisions as to what would be cut. I saw the bill and it said 19% of GNP in the cap and 6trillion in cuts but it does not say what would be cut.
Obama should advertise on Jersey Shore, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol and all those other network reality shows that the ignorant sheep who supported him the first time continue to watch while he moves the country toward socialism, bankruptcy and third world status.
It must be Bush's fault that he lost the followers.
@Clwyd
He gained me!
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Republicans keep saying they are the voice of the people... and yet when the voices of the people ACTUALLY try to talk to them they consider it a malicious attack.
I thought you said you are listening to people! Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean I am malaciously attacking you. Listening only to people who just parrot the same republican pundits is hardly 'listening to the people.'
Exactly why is asking people to voice their opinions a bad thing? I thought we lived in a democracy. And republicans use this tactic all the time. If you want an infamous example, look up Operation Coffee Cup, and how republicans tried to derail the creation of Medicare to begin with with a small group of housewives spamming Congress.
as a progressive, and even though he is a professional politician and I didn't vote for either bush or obama in last election, i did however hold out a tad bit of hope for Obama. It has become increasingly clear to me, and it should to everyone, that this guy hasn't got a clue. People who were opposed to the moron (bush) and his policies should love Obama..he, like his predecessor, is becoming a perfect storm of incompetence. like hs predecessor, he is pro-war (1050 americans have been senselessly wasted in afghanistan in 2 /1/2 years as opposed to 630 in 8 years under the moron...he is pro nuclear power, pro torture, pro patriot act, anti fourth amendment, pro torture....and it goes on and on..and, with the economy, as well as the congress..he is totally clueless.....I don't have the solutions...but of one thing I'm certain..Obama doesnt!
If you're on Twitter, you'll be tweeted. Duh!
Come tuesday, his tweet will say – kiss your welfare check goodbye.
I havefelt no greater compulsion to speak out on the behalf of those who won't speak out than I have now. This country once maintained values that spoke out against leaving the weakest of us hungry. It seems now that we are so enthralled with making sure that we are left alone thatwehave forgotten what made this country great. There are few among you that can deny that your own family has at one time taken advantage of the safety that this great country has guaranteed. I want to ask you to think deep in your heart. I am going to ask you to look beyond your own wants. Who doesn't want to pay less taxe so that he or she may provide a better living for the family? No one can say that they do not. However, what if you had more than enough to met your own needs and the needs of your family for generations to come? Would you feel compelled to ensure that society as a whole was a better place? A place where you could feel that you had contributed suficiently as a leader of this nation? I, for one, am not comfortable knowing that the country may suffer because I stand to profit. It is high time that the well off realize that a better standard of living for all can only serve their own best interests. Remember that the poverty that you encourage will some day end up at your own doorstep. An economy where the wealth is held by few is doomed to failure. A fool ignores the lessons of the past.
I was one of the followers who "unfollowed". It was ridiculous, the number of tweets being sent out.
I get the "contact your Congressperson" idea, but enough with the dozens of tweets already. I won't be following again.
Obama has 9 million followers and gains about 10,000 – 15,000 per day
So losing 36,000 or 0.4% is less than a drop in a bucket (about 2 -3 days of followers) Typical news sensationalizing things they don't know anything about.
Can you just imagine what is going to happen to Obama's approval/disapproval numbers--when he goes on vacation in a few weeks, after members of Congress did ALL of the work to solve this crisis?? Independents-the largest voting block in the country-put this idiot in the White House. And, the majority of Independents are now awake and aware that he is clueless and worthless. Obama is one and done!!! The 2012 elections cannot get here fast enough!!
Palin Power
This is a very clear sign that Obozo is going to be a 1 term EPIC FAIL and will LOSE to Sarah Palin in 2012. Palin has more followers on Twitter and Facebook than Obozo and she will be our next and greatest President.
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Republicans LUV when the above is idolized beyond belief, but HATE when the President of the United States does it? HATE MUCH???? (idiots)
Whenever I send a newsletter at work there are people who unsubscribe. EVERY TIME. If we freaked out ove it, we'd never send another letter. Same situation here with the president on Twitter.
REPUBLICAN:
Separate but not equal
Stay tuned for the sequel
It's MY way or the HIGHWAY
If bipartisan then it will FLYAWAY!!!!
DEMOCRATS/maybe some INDEPENDENTS:
Separate is NOT equal
We are READY for the sequel
It’s NOT going to be YOUR WAY
It WILL be bipartisan before this DAY....................August 2, 2011
compromise, Compromise, COmpromise, COMpromise, COMPromise, COMPRomise, COMPROmise, COMPROMise, COMPROMIse, COMPROMISe, COMPROMISE!!!! Is this loud and clear???????
It is not like President Obama paid them to form phone banks to robo call the reps, like the GOP Koch heads do for their "Koch cash".
POTUS should have spoken to the country. Explain how he intends diminishing debt that is crippling this great country.
How om earth can we continue to borrow money without any chance of paying it back. Our grandchildren will be paying interest for the rest of their lives. Those who listen to our POTUS must still believe in the Tooth Fairy. Wake up people, be careful. Dont destroy our country. Think very carefully about everyones future.
Following that account doesn't mean you support Obama. I'm I Democrat, I follow that account, and since Obama has acted as a Republican, totally abandoning any Democratic principals, and has sold us all out, as well as being the architect of destroying Social Security and Medicare, I definitely won't be voting for Obama. I'm hoping the Democratic party realizes that Obama has killed his base, and can't be elected by Independents (who are really Republicans anyway). We need a Democratic convention to find a candidate who can beat lunatics like Michelle Bachman. Obama won't even be able to do that. So, that his twitter site has followers, is no indication whatever of support for his re-election. There is no more loyal Democrat than me, and I absolutely, positively will not vote for again, or work for again, or contribute to again an Obama campaign as I have done. Further, I apologize to the country, and to the millions of Americans who will lose their Social Security and Medicare, for my Obama vote. I can only offer that I believed what he said, and sadly, I was not alone in the error in judgement.
I thought it was a genius move on the Obama admin part. Get involved, any way you can. A lot of representatives are taking to twitter and other social media to connect with their constituents. It's an easy way to send them a message. Now, whether they'll ever read it is a whole 'nother story.
I added 30 followers to the Obama twitter through my Facebook account. I would like to know how many did he pick up?
People should contact Republican and Democratic representatives about blocking Boehner's "Ruin America" bill (as he and his followers probably refer to it privately). Republican representatives should be called to think with their heart and their brain rather than their wallet. Democratic representatitves should be called to grow a spine and not give into the Republicans (like Boehner and these tea party people) who are incapable of caring about America.
I am one who unfollwed the President yesterday. It is annoying when you receive dozens of tweets within hours. It can bw a full time job reading them live alone acting. Someone is being lazy. They should used zip code etc to zero-in like 12 tweets per person of members we should contacts. They are actually abusing our tweets relationship and kinda showed desperation something a leader should never display. I still remain loyal to Obama
The American public keeps electing these people to Congress, what can I say except you are getting what you voted for in 2010! The Tea Party is showing there true colors. Wait until Wednesday then we will see where chips fall. The conservative's are so full of themselves and so sure they and they alone know how to fix all problems, we will see!
At this point I am actually expecting Congress to fail to find a compromise, at which point the President will either invoke article 4 of the 14 amendment, or we will crash and burn our economy. If the latter happens, a lot of people will find themselves going hungry soon, many of them conservative senior citizens. I wonder how that is going to change the political dynamic? Could it possibly result in an upswell of actual disenfranchisement with the political system, especially against the conservative agenda? Now THAT would be change I could believe in!
I think the House,Congress,Senate,& all gov.should NOT get paid ..let them see how it feels not to have an income..I depend on my soc monthly check...
Everyone wants to be heard but no one hears. We have become like God, we all have the "truth". And our pride is the seed of our own destruction.
Losing just 33,000 followers out of more than 9 million followers of that Twitter account is nothing. That's less than one-half of one percent. Hardly a rounding error. I thought it was an inventive use of modern communications technology to ensure that Congress heard the people's concerns. Keep it up!!! And tell your Republican congressional reps that we need compromise not demagoguery!
i don't understand what the problem is...
It is 'The Hills' fault on all sides, and it is America's fault. We have become such a selfish, self-centered lack-of-nation that we have ALL allowed this to happen. No moral values – everything is 'gray' to all. Congratulations to you all.
Barack Obama: notorious spammer. Now I know who's responsible for all of those Viagra and Canadian Pharmacy advertisements...
Who cares/ The truth is the Tea party is hell bent on destroying everything good about America! They will destroy safety and programs for the poor to line to pockets of the rich and try to get money from them for their own re election. They are terrorists ! They would destroy America and its economy for their own selfish childish demands. Throw them out America! Nobody voted them in to destroy our nation! What happened to the talk about job creation? They just bust unions and destroy the economy! They are the idiots, not Obama.
I thought people were on Twitter so that they could be spammed by celebrities, guess I was wrong.
The President is failing his country. This is his responsibility, to get everyone together for a compromise and he's not doing it.
To put this 'backfire' into perspective, Obama's number of twitter followers decreased 0.35%. Suffice it to say, a drop in the bucket, or out of the bucket, as it were.
Please read what APARTHIED is and you will see and understand exactly what President Obama is fighting against and what the Republicans are attempting to install. Please read and you don't have to like the President but you can stop these Republicans.
Stay strong Mr. President, the facts are clear and history will be on your side. You are the only person with term limits involved in this. You are acting in the best interest of the American people – not yourself. Thank you for stepping in to such a mess and trying the last three years to clean it up and keep us out of depression. Lots of tough calls had to be made. We understand the debt ceiling is about paying bills – money already spent from 2 wars and taxcuts for wealthy. Keep up the good work !
Aparthied Claudia, the Democrats who started the klan, implimented Jim Crow laws, and currently commiting genocide in our inner cities through the great society divide and conquer plan are fighting the slave freeing, civil rights defeding Republicans from installing Aparthied.
I don't want to stop Americas morally, integrity, equality best, like every other fair minded decent American who contributes to society I have a moral obligation to support the Republicans.
"Claudia, Houston, Tx" are you serious? You can disagree, but to be that ignorant is amazing.
Republican congressmen should spend less time worrying about Obama's tweets and more time figuring out why they are more interested in preventing Big Business and the wealthy from being taxed. Don't even get me started on the ignorance of the "Tea Party" congressmen that are so delusional as to think they are doing their country a service by refusing to negotiate with the President and earnestly believe it would be better to let the country default so Obama's chances at re-election in 2012 will be greatly diminished.
obama is a pathetic leader....my son would make a better leader and he is only 9. he cares not for the military...and does not care a bit for this country.....he does not want to fix anything he wants to break it.....i see americans waking und realizing that this guy was a huge mistake.....read animal farm. that is what obamas administrattion is all about......my country has survived tough times and i believe in my heart that we will survive and be great again once this dictator is out of office
Twitter should be beneath the dignity of the President, just childish garbage.
Let's see he has 9372570 followers and growing again
The 33,000 were probably on the right who were peeking in,
@That is hilarious...
You have absolutely no knowledge of anything. But, to keep it short, I'll focus on one of your idiotic comments:
The First Lady NEVER said she was never proud of her country, and this lie was exposed about 2 years ago. Educate yourself and read the entire comment she made... In it's TRUE context. Dope.
@ Southern Hottie... Me too! This inspired me to be a follower!
First, for those who are saying the President is ruing the Country...where you guys when Bush was in charge.
Fact 1: 80% of the current budget deficit was caused by GWB and his Republican party.
Fact 2: the President of the US does not have to submit a plan to have Congress lift the debt ceiling. So, please stop asking where his plan...like the other Presidents before him, Obama just has to ask Congress to left the ceiling.
Fact 3: The process of lifting of the debt is a legislative matter, not an executive function.
You people should get your facts straight and stop watching Fox News.
Finally, for those conservatives and progressives who are disappointed in Obama, don't vote for him 2012. He is the worst President in US history, I would hate to see what you think about GWB tenure...you remember him: 700,000 US jobs lost per month, negative economic growth, worst recession, etc. You are right, we should not blame Bush anymore just because he got us in this mess, and his Congressional Republican cowards went along with his policies...no I am going to blame it on the Tooth Fairy...because that is were most of you live, in Alice and Wonderland!
Who is writing these articles and where are they getting their information? I don't tweet, twitter or use any social blogging. I really do not think I am the only one.
While everyone is trying to get support and persuade their constituency of one form of a bill or another, the country does not have a working Congress. How many of us would be allowed to perform in our jobs as Congress has over the last two years. These people cannot work together not can they show respect for each other or anyone else. Why are they still serving in Congress?
The only article that Congress needs to read is one in which they are told to do their jobs or we will find someone who will. The American people deserve your full attention to the matters at hand. The constant bickering, brokering and posturing is unnecessary and does not do anything to get the job done.
To read some of these posts tell me that these pro-BHOites have had their heads where the sun never gets to put some sunshine. To compare what is going on in DC as aparthied and many of the other asinine posts really scares the hell out of me because those folks are so ill-inforned.
To declare what the republicans are "doing" to aparthied fulling demonstrates that the person that made the quote is either a moron or on very serious drugs. Good thing being a moron isn't illegal or that person would be in the "big house".
Just heard troops worried abt pay, for heaven's sake don't wake Obama,or make him miss his 50th gala over this!!!
you little dems better start liking republicans because there will be lots of them next election when we throw the rest of the dems out along woth osama
Darn, Obama lost all the Republicans who were watching what his re-election people had to say. Kinda of like getting rid of a scab.
the commander in tweet?
"the" divider in chief!
a real "non-presidential" president!
class war instegator......
listen to his words!
Aparthied......seriously?????
stryker....turn your head and just spit him out!
u know the song....
obama is in way over his head.
LOL? 33k out of 9 MILLION??? He probably has more than that just in REPUBLICANS that are keeping tabs on him via Twitter. Pure Comedy.
You Obama supporters make me want to puke you're so stupid.
I want freedom the way our country's founders designed it and established it with the Constitution. They were against the big governments in Europe .... and would oppose the return to big government that has been incrementally developing since FDR and accelerated during Obama's first term. I want the big spenders out of office ... both in the democrat party and in the republican party. And I want you all who support Obama to give voluntarily to those in need ... and get your hands out of my pockets.
"Contact your representative" campaigns by opposing politicians are pretty pointless to begin with. Anyone who is subscribed to Obama's re-election campaign Twitter acct 16 months before the election is a pretty obvious safe vote for Obama and Dems in general, so I'm afraid Ron Johnson isn't going to urinate himself when a flurry of people start contacting him in response to such a campaign – they weren't going to vote for him anyway. Politicians have statistical measures to determine their popularity and likelihood of re-election, contact campaigns are not representative of the electorate's leanings as they are limited to those who voluntarily participate, it's Sampling 101. And while we're on that topic, I'm pretty sure the statistics are available on what percentage a "natural burn rate" is after a tweet campaign, and using those we could tell if 33K out of 9M is "natural" or excessive. Why doesn't the author of the article research THAT if he wants us to know whether it's honestly "backfired".
And why do they have time to "tweet" ... on twitter
Both parties are at fault here, all of them bickering about what's best for their party and how the other party is wrong. What they're not talking about is what's best for the people. A terrible economy is about to get much worse because of their bickering. Thanks congress. They don't give a dang about us.
Wow, Obama explodes the U.S. debt by 45% in just 2 yrs so Republicans say we may want to cut back spending a little and they're called every name in the book. Sounds like democrats are crack addicts who are addicted to spending other peoples' money and will go to any means to keep spending without any kind of a reality check. Time for democrats to either grow up or get into some kind of counseling.
"Dear #Obamatons you are ruining my interactions with thoughtful democrats with this spam. And U R hurting your President," tweeted Rep. Dennis Ross R-Florida."
If a Republican said it it can't be true. I doubt that he's had any thoughtful interactions with democrats or anyone else.
I appreciated Obama's tweet of my congressman's twitter handle; I sent him a flurry of comments and not all about the debt.
Oh man, guys, his TWITTER
This is SERIOUS
nov. 2010 was epic,,, nov2012 is going to seal the deal and destroy the commies forever!!!
Why don't you explain it to us Claudia? I've been a Republican for 37 years and this is the first I've heard that my party is instilling "APARTHIED". What are you talking about Claudia? My goodness girl, there are better black men to listen to. Try "full blooded" black men like Tom Sowell or Walter Williams. Those are 100% black men if thats what you need and they'll tell it straight. Look them up!!!
I have an idea, why dont Obama step up and volunteer to donate to our deficit and encourage other fellow americans to do so also? How many Americans donate money and give money away a year just for a tax write off? Why cant we do this for our country? If we all “donated“or “give“ so much to our deficit for one year couldnt we still get it passed as a write off? That way taxes dont increase and medicare and social security dont get right off the bat. I DARE Obama to propose this idea! This is our country, if the government cant compromise to better both sides then why dont U.S. Citizens step up and help our country with this crisis? We fight for our country with war, why not with our brains too? Our citizens are to smart to let our country fall!!
Yes. Let's report what a Republican says about Obama and treat it as if it were real news. CNN, you are a joke.
Kidding me? 33,000 and made the news? Woow. I'm glad it was not like 300,000... Good God it would be the headline on CNN. Get real and report the news CNN.
face it folks, Obama couldn't lead a pack of chickens, he's a idiot and has no experience and I believe is the worst president America has ever seen. He's destroying American, he's clueless. What a crying shame what he is doing or not doing for America.
He's SUPPOSED to be a leader. LEAD!! If he wants compromise, then COMPROMISE. Every other time in history this has came up, it's been the President who has brought both sides together. This time it's the President who is keeping them apart.
OK you Obama haters...lets get a couple things straight. This president has had more issues to deal with LEFT over from 8 years of GOP/Bush..not one ounce of bi-partisan help was given to him, THEN the voters of 2008 elected a good group of 'fire and tar' tea baggers (who won't even work with their OWN party) The Afganistan war SHOULD have only been the ONLY war we were involved in. But oil lobbyists owned bush. And all Iraq did was to lose lives of 4000 of our soldiers. Explain that you bunch of unAmerican jokers. Give the Man some respect....ALL these issues were handed to him HE DID NOT create them. It is like you ignorant republican/TB to talk such trash...it is like a cancer through your veins...stop hating. Allow the bill to pass that will MAKE the rich pay their fair share and corporations like GE to pay as well. Obama has been trying to find compromise! Stop ignorance.
If tax increases will harm the economy we can say A LOT about the tax cuts that have been in place for the past 8 to 10 years and have not grown the economy. DO A BALANCED APPROACH!!!! The Tea Party members of Congress and Senate that signed a no tax pledge are not working for the people but a special interest group. Hmmm ceiling debt has been raised 49x by Rep presidents and 29x by Dem presidents since 1962. Who are the so called "fiscally" responsible ones??
Obama has done more harm for this nation than good. He is highly unprofessional and lacks objectivity. He cares more about homosexuals than he does about our homeless, our crime victims and our wounded war veterans. He has consistently lied to the American people – and yes, all Presidents do but it's still wrong.
Oh and the President requested a rise of the debt ceiling back in January 2011 and they have ignored him until now to get their own way... for any GOP voter or member of Congress or Senate to say the President was not involved in the debate/negotiations are hypocrites!!! McConnell's main purpose is to bring down the President. How about the entire Congress/Senate/Judicial and Executive branch (President/VP) take a 50% cut in pay, pay into their pensions and for their healthcare!!!!
Obama's driving this country into the ground and all the naive under-35 yo's blindly do whatever some 22 yo Obama staffer tweets about!?
pathetic on all accounts.
tweeting ? how about every one of us putting our shoes on their ass! they might listen to that faster than tweeting!!
It is calculated that only 1 out of 10 people respond to Tweets so 33,000 represents 3.3 million disatified voters turning against O-flippy floppy. He is in deep doo doo and is in it nose deep.
NO Bipartisn help ? Are you drugged in fantasy land – seems he had plenty of help. When 70% of the country DID NOT want mandated health care we sure ended up with it(BUT we'll have to pass it to see whats in it) 2100 pages of absolute BS. You have to earn respect before you get it- and thank the tea baggers for at least attempting to reign in this exhaustive run away spending machine that is going to bankrupt the US. Clinton is the one that removed the regulations on Fannie and Freddie. All of the issues were NOT handed to him , some yes. Maybe if he had some experience would have helped him out. Maybe if he stayed in DC for awhile instead of flying everywhere to drum up campaign donations might have helped.
I heard it once be said, "Men lie, women lie, numbers don't". That's not entirely true. This article is incomplete. It does not give the "mean" additions or subtractions nor does it tell who WHO the losses were. I'm very confident that those 33,000 are not even his constituents, therefore the 33,000 is no loss.
Well... If the GOP is actually agreeing to a deal it means Obama probably caved yet again...
Obama is the most ridiculous excuse for a president we have ever seen.
Can it be any more obvious that Obama is not a good fit for President? Sure, I made the same mistake as many and was sucked in by a very gifted speaker. But as the years has rolled by, we've seen only a campaigner in chief, not a Commander in Chief.
What happened to our stimulus? Regardless of what got us to the point of trouble prior to the stimulus it's the stimulus that has brought us to this point. SSI is being used to fund people and families that have not contributed. How is that responsible. If you paid in you are due a pay out. We are spending money on defense in wars and non-war, that are and have proved fruitless. The tea party has voted for change. Obama's supporters voted for change, without much hope. We are insane to continue on the same paths that brought to this point. Change is coming. We had better adapt and use it to our advantage and stop business as usual. We must reign in our wasteful spending. We need jobs and industry not handouts to unproductive parasites be they domestic, illegal, or world wide. Trade agreements that protect our economy, our industries, and our jobs.
Palin 2012! She would never abuse her followers like this modern day Hitler does!
Looks like Pres. Obama did a little house cleaning and purged his Twit account of all those teatards, 'con spies and negative "blame the black guy" commentors from Dixie...Looks like there were about 33kof 'em out of millions. Not as many as I suspected it would be.
Fire all the incumbents – both parties. Let's start over with brand new reps in both houses of congress. And fire the silly fool who got into the white house under false pretenses. He is not what he said he would be.
Tweeting is just spamming. I stopped doing that silly stuff a long time ago. Dump your tweeting capability and return to a face to face discussion.
Obama hopes the debt ceiling does not go through. All part of his plan all along to make the US a third world country.
It is really pathetic how the financial situation of America is blamed on Obama. George Bush went into the white house with a surplus and managed to eliminate it in less than 2 months. Then for the next 7 years continued to run this country into a path of destruction like that of the Sun King of France (look it up if you're too stupid to know who he was). Let's continue to sustain the lifestyle of the wealthy and continue to line our pockets while the rest of the world pays for it. Now that there is NO other way to fix it than to ask those who benefited for the last few years to share the wealth they are crying and whining like children. Let's get realistic, if we were asking that sacrifices be made to support the lazy masses, i'd be against it also. But we're asking the masses to help mostly America's working poor, or the unemployed because of all the jobs that GEORGE BUSH out sourced, while screaming that the America economy was doing well. We know he and his cronies did well. What about the rest of America.
@Me...
Great solution. Fire them all!!! That's done through the election process, which means the tea party bozos that were elected last November to the Senate have another hellish 5 years before we can "fire them." the House idiots have another year. In the meantime, we the people are at the mercy of extreme right-wing loonies who are holding us hostage unless they crush the government. Firing them now, before they destroy the country is NOT AN OPTION!!!
@Larry...
You're funny. You make me laugh!
It's George Bush's fault, it's George Bush's fault, it's George Bush's fault. Hmmm.... For some strange reason, the problems caused by Obama's policies are the fault of his predecessor, who has been out of office for nearly 3 years???!!! Was it George Bush's fault that OBAMA'S "stimulus" plan didn't keep unemployment below 8% as they claimed? I hadn't realized he was a design of that debacle. Was it George Bush's fault that Democrat's spent one solid year jamming Obamacare downthe throats of Americas that don't want it?? I had realized George Bush was a designer of Obama's policies.
Democrat's controlled BOTH houses of Congress from 2006-2010 AND the Whitehouse for TWO of those years. WHEN will these immature loser Democrats EVER take responsibilty for THEIR actions. It is NO coincidence the financial mess happened after they tookj control of Congress and NO coincidence the economy is in a record length of unemployment because of THEIR policies. The American people woke up in 2010 and will finish the job in 2012. We will not sit idly by while these "progressive"/socialist Democrats destroy this country with their insane fiscal policies.
We spend $302 Billion/yr and take in $172 Billion in revenues. Our president tweets. Clearly we have spending problem. Tax the "rich" 100% would not cover the amt we spend or owe. But our president tweets. Our credit rating is based on our debt to income ration. Our president tweets. We will be downgraded b/c of debt/income ratio not default. Our president tweets. We need to drastically cut spending and balance the budget. But our president tweets. Where is the leadership? Where is the CHANGE?