Microblogging Twitter was first introduced by the majority of the irony, is seen as a "doormat" in the blogosphere, people think it is a stupid little service, brain normal people do not use, is designed for extremely narcissistic people, the laity on the above share the trivia of life, no one will go to see. Or Twitter was once seen as a joke. But no one dares to laugh at it now, because even President Barack Obama is using it.
Recently, Twitter has appeared in the East reactiveness of the White House, and co-founder Jack Doxycycline is in a question-and-answer session with Mr. Obama. Yes, President Obama is answering all the questions from Twitter, but can you say Twitter is a joke?
Most interestingly, Twitter shows people how good they are. Not so long ago, the White House gave a warning that Obama would do micro-interviews via Twitter, and that people could ask questions through "#askobama." Later, Twitter worked with mass relevance to use its own algorithm to assign administrator filtering issues with relevant experience. Twitter received a total of 169,395 messages with "#askobama" tags.
Just like the debate during the presidential election, it is not clear to Mr Obama how the problem will be faced. With the ensuing series of issues of genuine concern to the public, Mr Obama has made candid exchanges on these issues. Mass relevance released data showing that 26% of the problems involved employment, 19% on the budget, 16% on taxes, 10% on education, and 6% on housing. All the questions are serious in nature.
The activity continues to receive the new question which the Netizen raises, many West picks out to issue 10 minutes question to Obama. Some questions Obama has already answered before, and Obama will make a point again. Everything is done in real time.
Many of the problems come from prominent political groups, such as John Boehner, the House Republican, and Nick Kristof, the New York Times columnist, Boehner. While these people can ask the president at any time, it is refreshing to be able to do so in a highly transparent way.
Obama quickly found his opponents ' stance "slightly biased" when he answered Mr Boehner's questions about debt and job growth, but he answered the question and joked about Boehner's ability to type.
The city hall may be as old as modern politics, and the influence of science and technology on politics is not a new topic. For example, many still believe that Kennedy was able to win the 1960 presidential election simply because he appeared more energetic on television than Nixon. Twitter is somehow linked to political issues. Again, there was disagreement on the issue, which was staged once in 2008. Today's events have made the symbolic relationship between Twitter and politics clearer than ever. Perhaps by the 2012 presidential election, things will be really crazy, and of course I want everything to be in the right direction.
Comparing today's activities with what Obama did at Facebook earlier this year (at the time of his Facebook headquarters), the problem is not necessarily better than the previous one. Facebook was more of an old-fashioned MTV City Hall event, and Facebook was the equivalent of MTV, giving politicians an opportunity to attract the public, with little meaning in their activities.
Twitter, by contrast, is smaller than Facebook. The president will not take this to the big agenda or attract the attention of some people, he only needs to answer serious questions. 4 years ago, if the president had been in a Twitter campaign, it would have been a great laugh, because putting "Twitter" and "president" in the same sentence was a funny thing in itself. But today Twitter did it. Of course, some people think that today's activities look more like "a meaningless marketing campaign."
Twitter is a channel to hear everyone's voice. Yes, you have to sign up for an account first, but it's free, and the barriers to attending today's quiz are never low. It's a great thing, it's strong, the White House is doing really well.
At the end of today's event, I went back to the previous article on Twitter, and the poor respect that Twitter had received in years. Some people wonder if Twitter is failing because no one knows it's a chance.
Today, I stand with a president in the East Hall of the White House. On his left hangs a portrait of the first American President George Washington in 1797, on the right, the Martha-Washington portrait, which was created in 1878, but he was in the middle of a big TV screen, showing Twitter messages.
Times are changing, and Twitter, a small service, is now the President's tool.