President Barack Obama has launched several social media platforms to get his messages out to the voters. The president has used Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and now the presidential committee for President Obama joined Tumblr as of Monday for the 2012 campaign, which was first mentioned in the New York Times.


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There's still an hour to go until Facebook's f8 keynote kicks off, but the last two weeks have already been filled with Facebook news, including the launch of a revamped News Feed and Facebook's real-time Ticker.

Another, slightly less prominent launch, was the introduction of Facebook's Smart Lists. These group your friends automatically based on criteria like location and employer — and they also make it very easy to build your own custom lists, providing uncannily accurate suggestions that m [...]

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Facebook's role in Egypt's current state of affairs has once again begun to make headlines, but for a very different reason. While Facebook has often been linked to the Egyptian uprising which brought down the government of former president, Hosny Mubarak, the social network has now become a small but significant part of his ongoing trial.The former president is facing charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters following the uprising that began on January 25, calling for him to step down. [...]

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In recent weeks we’ve had quite a lot to worry about, from the declining economy to earthquakes and hurricanes and, to top it all off, Steve Jobs resigned! Erik Qualman of Socialnomics adds a little bit of comic relief to the mix with a funny Xtranormal video he uploaded to YouTube following the news of Jobs’ resignation—Steve Jobs For President!


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Image courtesy of The WhitehouseMany people aspire to be the Mayor of places they check-in to on Foursquare. There's one new user, however, for who that would be a demotion.President Obama Joins Foursquare (Mashable)It is probably more accurate to say that the President's office signed up as we learn from the official White House Blog. Take a Tip from the White House on FoursquareHere's what's planned for this Foursquar account:- Follow White House "Tips": See the places the President and admini [...]

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The negotiations over raising the U.S. debt ceiling continue, as I am sure you are all well aware of. President Barack Obama and his staff are utilizing the power of Twitter to get a clear message out – we need #Compromise. Earlier in the day, the President tweeted on his official Twitter page "The time ...

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Yesterday afternoon, President Obama sat down on Twitter for the first ever Twitter Town Hall event, where fans and critics alike could ask questions in an open format. The questions were asked in the days prior, sent to the #AskObama hashtag. From there, Twitter search algorithms identified the most engaged-with Tweets, and those questions were ...

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