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This article was published on June 30, 2011

The White House and Obama to hold the first “Twitter Townhall”


The White House and Obama to hold the first “Twitter Townhall”
Courtney Boyd Myers
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Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and .

The White House has just announced the 1st “Twitter @townhall” with President Obama to take place next week on Wednesday, July 6th. Followers will be able to #AskObama anything about the economy and jobs at askobama.twitter.com. Follow @Townhall to “listen into the conversation.”

Obama has been quite the tech savvy President these days. We caught his first tweet just 11 days ago from the @BarackObama account. Now Obama has 8.7 million Twitter followers and counting! Check out his stats here on Twitter Counter.

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