Obama Loses 36,000+ Twitter Followers in #Compromise Campaign [STATS]

President Obama created a barrage of activity on Twitter on Friday afternoon when he began urging his more than 9 million followers to tweet at their Republican Congressmen to “ask them to support a bipartisan solution to the deficit crisis.”

The @BarackObama account then proceeded to tweet out the Twitter handles of Republican Congressmen state-by-state. The account has also been making use of the hashtag #compromise in an effort to drive home the message of bipartisanship.

The results so far have been mixed. According to NM Incite, the #compromise hashtag had been used more than 22,000 times and reached 36 million users (followers of accounts using the hashtag) as of around 5 p.m. ET on Friday, and people had mentioned the President some 28,000 times in tweets. NM Incite says 40% of the @BarackObama mentions and 28% of the #compromise tweets expressed positive sentiment, with only 13% and 12% of them expressing negative sentiment, respectively.





full: http://mashable.com/2011/07/29/obama-compromise-campaign-stats/

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I mean we have to plan for the inevitable that they will begin incarcerating progressives & liberals in debt camps.

He can take that one as his campaign slogan in '12. The base will go wild.

Compromise Social Security. Compromise Medicare. Compromise $700 billion in domestic programs. Oh, joy!

That's from his Senate website, no less:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=718431&mesg_id=718431

This, too: "Sanders embraced a proposal by the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell"

Do you think the same of St. Bernie? Guess Sanders caved, huh?

Good thing President Obama has rejected every single Republican plan so far, including McConnell's, which would create Catfood Commission II on steroids, with St. Bernie's blessing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=725886&mesg_id=726268

President Obama also issued a veto threat against Boehner's plan. The message sank in, because every single Democrat in Congress voted against Boehner's plan.

Health care reform? Being a nice guy who holds hands with the GOP and Wall Street? I think you summed it up real well.

:rofl:

Doubtless there were some posters from this forum in that number based on the "weak", "caving" drumheat being pounded out steadily.

I don't think he realizes it.

:crazy:

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out.

And still disagree.

Time will prove a lot of this to be handwringing and hot air, methinks.

The aftermath of this is going to be absolutely disgusting.

I suspect even you might get disgusted as news proliferates of important programs and services being slashed and burned in the years ahead.

All is lost!

Some people will follow opposition politicians just to make silly cracks about every tweet they make, I have to imagine that main of the unfollows came from such tweeters.

There's probably something to it since he gained about a thousand, but as far as a "dip" goes it's rather uncontroversial. If you were to look at it from a distance (yearly as opposed to hourly) it probably wouldn't even show up.

Oh no!!!

Bankster, Hedge Fund Manager, CEO, and investor class supporters. Everything else is just bullshit window dressing.