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U.S. President Barack Obama greets audience members after a town hall style event with Chinese youth at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Obama stunned, irked and left many Twitter users feeling betrayed after he admitted to a group of Chinese students in Shanghai, that he never used Twitter. The chatter over the betrayal increased rapidly and ended up on the trending topics list. Trending topics fall off Twitter in moments but some topics have lasted for weeks. It's hard to say how long Twitter will be shocked by the confession.
According to Breaking News Online (BNO) the US President was holding a meeting with Chinese students that was streamed live to the White House's Facebook page. One of the students asked Obama, "Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able to use Twitter?" Obama answered, "I have never used Twitter but I'm an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access."
The rub is that President Obama's account has a "verified" seal on it's page and has over two and a half million followers. The Twitter website does say that Twitter verifies the person or someone the person allows to tweet on their behalf on verified account.
Many of Obama's followers believed that he tweeted on occasion and some believed it was his personal business account. Thus, the disappointment felt by Twitter users. Others were angry and believed that there should be a note on the account stating that all tweets are from his staff.
Tweets at the time of this writing:
- @meredithwrogers "Obama probably shouldn't have let it be known that he's never used twitter. Web geeks are having a hissyfit."
- @techpresident "Twitterverse is Shocked, SHOCKED Obama Admitted to Never Using Twitter."
- @netWire "Shocking, given that his account with 2.6 million followers has even been "verified" by Twitter headquarters' !!! #Obama"
- @HirokiJpn "I have never used Twitter" said Obama. Hahaha then, who are you the one I'm following?"
- @Inap "So Obama never used Twitter himself? Shocking. Did anyone really think he was posting on his own?! Should've been clear about it tho'."
- @BuzzEdition "WHOA...I thought Obama HAD used twitter...so sad now....."
- @Amadeus3000 "I thought he used his account himself in early campaign days.."
- @trevorevans "Hmm I thought @BarackObama used it during the election."
- @funuhu "Shocking! I am sad."
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I'm bit disappointed to hear that, to be honest. I thought it was cool that he, along with millions of others, used it together. Sad stuff.
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