Paul Boutin, Blogger, Gadgetwise, New York Times

President Obama Abandons Twitter

February 27, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Barack Obama’s online presence drove his campaign’s early fund raising and his primary victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton. His campaign’s use of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube proved that he was part of the Web 2.0 generation. In the run-up to November’s election, Senator Obama–or one of his staff members–typed more than 250 updates to his Twitter account at twitter.com/barackobama.

So what happened? President Obama hasn’t tweeted once since being sworn into office. He posts weekly five-minute videos at whitehouse.gov. Can’t the guy type a one-line update?

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