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Obama; was it all just to win the elections?

By Boris
November 12, 2008
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A lot of people are holding their breath right now and are wondering if Obama is really about everything he preached during the elections. Is he really going to fix the economy? Is he going to ‘Change’ everything? Is he really devoted to new technology?

Well, I certainly hope so but the first signs are bad. As you might know @BarackObama is the most popular Twitter user by far with more than 128.000 followers. But ever since he won the elections on the 5th of November he stopped updating. This is his last tweet:

Twitter / BarackObama

Well, thank YOU too. But we didn’t expect you to stop listening and talking after you got where you are now? What’s next? Will you stop returning our calls? Decide NOT to change after all? What happened to ‘Yes we can”? How about “Yes We Can Tweet!”

If you are following @BarackObama let him know we won’t allow him to leave! Send him a message RIGHT NOW:

Send a Tweet to Obama!

Clicking that link will produce this tweet:
Twitter / bomega

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  • CasaMan
    I bet he's opening a new account just like

    the new website: http://Change.Gov
    the new youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangeDotGov
    the new twitter: ???
  • Andrew Snaith
    I hope you are right!
  • Joost Elfering
    i think it kind of oblivious to think that Barack twittet all of those by himself... as a presidential candidate you are busy... i mean really busy and stuff like handling email, blog's and other digital stuff is mainly done by a PA or a special designated person to handle incoming messages and outgoing stuff.

    as an example: if you email to billgates@microsoft.com it will arrive to our friend bill... but that there is a small team of PA's assigned to filter his email to find what is really important and what is not. i think the case with Barack is the same.

    anyways he's busy with moving all his stuff to his new home for the next 4 years. so i think if he did it himself he would take a small break at least until he's in office.
  • I think we all should be worried or even scared if the president-elect spend his time actually twittering with the geek-part of the world: he has some real issues to solve!
    Give ‘m a break…and a chance.
  • Erik Jonker
    He will probably be quiet until the actual handover, as said he has a lot of preparation to do and he stated the obvious, that there can be only one president (and for two months that is Bush). However he knwows he won this election partly by clever use of technology, a good politician will not forget such a lesson.
  • Hi,

    After such a dense period, he could give some info of his plans and continue one tweet a week or something like this.

    I was not following Obama but I was amazed by the management of his political marketing during such a long period.

    The lack of the follow up on Twitter looks like a common week point everybody could make, no?
  • I guess you haven't seen the last episode of South Park? Otherwise you'd know what he's really up to at the moment ;)
  • Jeroen,

    You mean South Park episode on the Hope D.....d ?
    http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/207897/
  • 'About Last Night...' it's called. Give's you a whole other perspective ;)
  • miss the tweets for sure.

    DO NOT miss all the campaigning emails from his camp. i swear it was becoming spamming in the last few days of the election.
  • Bob Boynton
    This is really remarkable. A Dutch "serial internet entrepreneur" is urging the president-elect of the US to return to twittering, and encouraging anyone reading the blog -- probably a lot of not US citizens -- to call on him to stick with us.

    What a remarkable global world we weave!
  • Obama weekly on video from now :

    http://tinyurl.com/6oyyqp

    at change.gov & youtube

    enjoy :)
  • Hi, just mentioned you in my latest post, which could be considered a follow-up to this one. He has not started tweeting again apparently despite these efforts.

    http://www.alhankeser.com/barack-obama-stops-tw...
  • Yeah, how to get @barackobama to tweet again! I'd like that!
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