Comments on: Why Did Obama Abandon Twitter?

By: Natural Treatments

Natural Treatments — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:49:08 +0000

Barack Obama is the best president,;;

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:18:25 +0000

While Twitter is abandoned, FriendFeed is not: http://friendfeed.com/barackobama

A sign of the times?

By: Aritra

Aritra — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:10:27 +0000

He stopped twittering because his immediate mission has been accomplished. (becoming the prez)

He may use it in the future . Never say never.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:03:14 +0000

Maybe he stopped using twitter because he’s got to save the economy, fight two wars, stop the housing crisis, work on bailing out banks and thousands of businesses, oh and be a father and husband…and that point…twitter is probably pushed off to the side just like it is when I get busy at work. Oh and he probably isn’t allowed to send tweets from his phone because someone could track it from there.

By: Steve Fisher

Steve Fisher — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:17:05 +0000

Don’t forget the potential for security leaks.

The president gets access to lots of classified information many people wouldn’t want him mentioning without thinking about it.

As a candidate, twitter was an asset to him. As President, it could end up as a massive liability, a liability that if he made the wrong mistake at the wrong time, could end up with him being impeached or losing enough political capital to become a lame duck.

While I’m sure there are many more “ruthless” reasons for Obama to stop using twitter, but the chances are pretty good he ended up having to choose between hiring an intern to approve his tweets or just not doing it.

By: Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:28:55 +0000

Well now that’s simple – he probably stopped because, as you suggested, he got what he wanted. Why bother continue?

Very shortsighted in my opinion.

Data points, Barbara

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:01:45 +0000

I think the reason is just as you said, use something to make yourself look modern, then stop it once you have achieved what you wanted.

However I think it also has something to do with the fact that all communications by the President could possibly be court marshalled should someone find a problem with the Obama administration, probably something like Obama and his Blackberry.