Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Obama To Face Twitter 'town Hall'

US President Barack Obama is to grip his initial Twitter "town hall" meeting, where he will answer questions acted by users of the micro-blogging website.

He is approaching use a live webcast to answer questions, submitted around tweets containing the hashtag #AskObama, on problems from jobs to the economy.

It will be held at the White House, streamed live on Twitter and moderated by Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey.

A row of users will re-tweet questions to select the to be asked.

Roughly 30 of more than 2.2 million Twitter users who follow the White House account have been invited to the East Room for Wednesday's event.

While these question-and-answer sessions are often well known as "town hall" meetings in the US, this even is being called a "Tweet-up" by the Obama administration.

"The role of carrying out this eventuality is to try to find new opportunities to link up with Americans around the country," mentioned White House Director of Digital Strategy Macon Phillips.

Mr Phillips updated that the Obama administration department was quite meddlesome in receiving value of the "real-time inlet of Twitter to obviously have a review and a set of questions that evolves" as the boss speaks.

Thousand of questions have been submitted given late June, Mr Phillips said.

Twitter mentioned it would tell information about the event's online turn of rendezvous once the digital locale gymnasium discussion had finished.

In April, the boss held a identical Facebook eventuality at that amicable media giant's domicile in California. A YouTube locale gymnasium was moreover held at the White House in February.

The Obama administration department often uses Twitter to break headlines and as a stage to link up with the site's users.

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