Obama begins re-election campaign through Facebook, Twitter

Times of India Sunday 19th June, 2011

Barack Obama has kicked off his re-election bid for 2012 through popular online mediums like Facebook and Twitter, trying to replicate the huge success he had in the 2008 campaign. Obama's campaign said in a posting on its website that he will tweet regularly from the popular social media service and his personal tweets will be signed "-BO." The campaign said it will now manage both Obama's Twitter account and Facebook page. All the information regarding election preparations in Washington and other parts of country will be made available here, campaign staff of Obama, wrote on the Facebook page. Around 23,000 netizens have approved the change and more than 4,000 have commented on the new Facebook page. The campaign said that the changes "will give us new opportunities to make the most of ...

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