Comments on: Obama’s first tweet? Then who the heck is @BarackObama? http://scottstanzel.com/2010/01/19/obamas-first-tweet/ Media - Politics - Tech - Triathlons Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott http://scottstanzel.com/2010/01/19/obamas-first-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Scott Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:00:36 +0000 http://scottstanzel.com/?p=839#comment-1661 Thanks for your comment, Michael. There was one more tweet after the election was called. I think it was something along the lines of "we did it." My view is that if @BarackObama isn't going to be Barack Obama, it should be @ObamaforPresident or @WhiteHouse. That way, I think it would match the press secretary construct - where they are named when quoted in stories and you can tell who is delivering the message at the podium. Thanks for your comment, Michael. There was one more tweet after the election was called. I think it was something along the lines of “we did it.”

My view is that if @BarackObama isn’t going to be Barack Obama, it should be @ObamaforPresident or @WhiteHouse. That way, I think it would match the press secretary construct – where they are named when quoted in stories and you can tell who is delivering the message at the podium.

]]> By: Michael Atalla http://scottstanzel.com/2010/01/19/obamas-first-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 Michael Atalla Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:00:31 +0000 http://scottstanzel.com/?p=839#comment-1660 I'm not sure I agree with you on this one Scott. Twitter is a social media marketing tool that bussinessmen, politicians, and the like can and should use to further their cause. I am not in accord that having a staffer speak on the President's behalf in this and other social media forums represents a lack of authenticity any more than having a deputy press secretary speak on one's behalf at a press conference, particularly since none of these tweets are written in the first person. I recognize that there is a difference given the obvious visual queues that the press secretary is not the President, however I think Twitter etiquitte is still in its infancy. It is entirely reasonable to say that the way in which these tools are used should be critiqued, but to paint a broad brush over this means of marketing and communication is a mistake at this stage. I am sure Martha Stewart or Miss Manners will eventually publish an etiquitte guide for us all, but until then I'll give the President a pass on tweeting his own tweets. In answer to your request for the President's election night tweet, it was, in fact, not in the first person. It goes as follows, "Asking you to help Get Out the Vote in these last few critical hours of our campaign for change. Visit http://my.barackobama.com/finaldrive." I’m not sure I agree with you on this one Scott. Twitter is a social media marketing tool that bussinessmen, politicians, and the like can and should use to further their cause. I am not in accord that having a staffer speak on the President’s behalf in this and other social media forums represents a lack of authenticity any more than having a deputy press secretary speak on one’s behalf at a press conference, particularly since none of these tweets are written in the first person. I recognize that there is a difference given the obvious visual queues that the press secretary is not the President, however I think Twitter etiquitte is still in its infancy. It is entirely reasonable to say that the way in which these tools are used should be critiqued, but to paint a broad brush over this means of marketing and communication is a mistake at this stage. I am sure Martha Stewart or Miss Manners will eventually publish an etiquitte guide for us all, but until then I’ll give the President a pass on tweeting his own tweets.

In answer to your request for the President’s election night tweet, it was, in fact, not in the first person. It goes as follows, “Asking you to help Get Out the Vote in these last few critical hours of our campaign for change. Visit http://my.barackobama.com/finaldrive.“

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