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President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day

BY Anjali Mullany
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost – more than 40,000 Twitter followers.

Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline.

 

Not everyone is a fan of the presidential spam. By Friday evening, the President had lost more than 40,000 Twitter followers - and counting.

Many members of the Twitterati took to the social media platform to voice their annoyance over the barrage of partisan tweets. A search for “@BarackObama unfollow” turned up scores of irritated posts.

“Honestly, @BarackObama, I’m going to have to unfollow you if you don’t stop filing up my Twitter inbox soon,” tweeted Bostonian @melisthreadgill, a self-described “Progressive activist”.

“Can’t believe I had to unfollow @BarackObama for spamming Twitter. Really, really strange behavior,” wrote @Arevill inConnecticut.

“I want to unfollow @BarackObama but his desperation is too entertaining,” tweeted @rdpatrick of Lavonia, Georgia.

While his follower number appears to have taken its biggest dive in recent memory, Obama’s Twitter account still had a whopping 9,362,880 followers at 7:30pm Friday night, down from 9,402,898 Friday morning - and he's still the third-most followed person on the planet.

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You aren't really paying attention, are you.

 

This has already been debunked under "America is sick of Obama" or some such nonsense title by Ronnie P.

 

The tally runs from 40,000 down to 14.000 (I put a link to the twitter stats feed in my rebuttal) but this is out of over 9 million followers.

 

You really are slipping aren't you, don't worry, Rocky's back to keep ALL of you thugs on your toes.

 

ONCE AGAIN, my tag line for the day

14,000 out of 9 million

 

DO THE MATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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