It was all a sham.
Obama admitted to a group of Chinese students that he’d never used Twitter today.
He has 2.6 million followers.
ReadWriteWeb reported:
Barack Obama spoke to a group of Chinese students tonight at a town hall in Shanghai. The meeting was streamed live, worldwide on the Whitehouse website and on the Whitehouse’s Facebook page. He was asked a limited number of questions by the audience and one was about Twitter, which has been blocked in China since July.
Got that? The President went to China, was asked about Twitter and it was streamed live on his Facebook page. How the world has changed.
Obama was asked by a student, “Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able to use Twitter?” His reply: “I have never used Twitter but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access.” (via Breaking News Online)
He’s never used Twitter! Shocking, given that his account with 2.6 million followers has even been “verified” by Twitter headquarters! (Update: As a reader points out in comments below, the Twitter website says that verification is given to accounts representing organizations and public figures, but doesn’t verify who’s actually Tweeting the Twittle.)
The Twitterverse was all atwitter when Obama admitted this today.
More… IOpian added this:
“Maybe he can see if Palin will show him how to use it.”
She could probably teach him a thing or two about Facebook, too.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:20 am | #1
Always assume he’s lying. He didn’t want to answer the question because he intends to put “a great wall” in America, too.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:21 am | #2
“Watch my right hand closely….I waive it slowly in the air…. while my left hand suddenly produces a shiny coin from behind your ear!”
He’s such a fun President.
Of course he doesn’t use Twitter; he has a highly paid Czar to do that.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:22 am | #3
He is lying, again.
Does the sun rise? yes. Obama is lying.
Does the sun set? yes. Obama is lying.
The ease with which he lies and the total unnecessary nature of most of the lies are amazing.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:42 am | #4
Maybe he can see if Palin will show him how to use it.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:44 am | #5
Obviously we are not nuanced enough to understand what the meaning of the word “use” is.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:50 am | #6
And I never use the internet.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:55 am | #7
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November 16th, 2009 | 11:56 am | #8
Thought Obama came out on Twitter after Palin cleaned his clock with it a few months ago during the Iranian protests, but then again it could have been Team Obama Twitting under his name, which means of course that anything with “Obama” signed after doesn’t mean “Obama” even typed one letter of it. The ILLUSION of being hip, techno-savvy and “people-accessible.”
November 16th, 2009 | 11:58 am | #9
Twitter? Never heard of it.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:02 pm | #10
That means he’s either lying about never using twitter or one of his staffers is pretending to be him. LMAO…
November 16th, 2009 | 12:04 pm | #11
ROFL twitter czar FTW.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:04 pm | #12
This is the same guy that gave McCain crap for not emailing. Hmmmm………
November 16th, 2009 | 12:23 pm | #13
He has a Blackberry, but he dosn’t know how to use Twitter? Hey zero you can Tweet on you computer too. I thought the WH was supposed to be oh so tech savvy. His lips are moving so he’s lying.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:23 pm | #14
The day Obama stops lying is the day we can all breathe a big sigh of relief because he’s dead.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:26 pm | #15
A bit over the top, DaughterofAR?
Can it with the death wishes. That’s huffpo talk.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:26 pm | #16
This is hilarious! His twitter followers thought it was really him? LOL!
November 16th, 2009 | 12:30 pm | #17
[...] on John McCain because he couldn’t use a computer? Cheap then, but ironic now after he told this to kids in China: Obama was asked by a student, “Do you know about the great firewall and should we be able to use [...]
November 16th, 2009 | 12:36 pm | #18
Anita Dunn instructed Obama not want to offend the communist tyrants. Anita hearts Mao.
November 16th, 2009 | 12:54 pm | #19
Uhm.
I’ve never used twitter either. And I don’t see why I should use it. It’s the same kind of pointless sh** as facebook and myspace. I’ve never used any of those either. And I never will. Why? For what purpose?
I have a real life, thank you.
The more interesting question for me is: does Obama even know what a firewall is?
November 16th, 2009 | 1:09 pm | #20
OT: Hilarious, Another photo of BO in bathing suit
http://twitpic.com/pkfbf
November 16th, 2009 | 1:10 pm | #21
On Whitehouse.gov they have all of the text. He also states that he never figured out how to text on a phone. Why the hell was he whining about wanting to keep his Blackberry if he can’t work the damn buttons?
November 16th, 2009 | 1:32 pm | #22
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November 16th, 2009 | 1:39 pm | #23
“This is the same guy that gave McCain crap for not emailing.”
QFT.
He quickly retracted it because his genius staff failed to mention McCain can’t type due to his shoulders being broken while POW in ‘nam. Classy!
Obama is the great adapter. Whatever he needs to be, he is. If he’s got to be a tech savvy geek for all the 20/30 something white liberal bandwagoners then he LOVES that good ole blackberry. If he needs not offend the net-deprived victims of Communism in China then he’s never tweeted.
Didn’t he tell students in Germany that he met Michelle in college even though it was a lie?
Wake up people, this guy is what Hillary said he is: An empty suit.
November 16th, 2009 | 2:45 pm | #24
The only Chinese that will know this are the few loyal communists that were allowed to attend the obamao`s speech. The obamao`s speech and town hall meeting was not run on the Chinese state run TV or radio stations.
The Chinese model of state run and controlled media is the dream of the obamao.
November 16th, 2009 | 2:47 pm | #25
Obama lies so much I don’t think he even knows the truth. Off topic anyone else finding this and how do I find it on my computer> http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/the-white-house-tracking-on-atlas-readers.html
November 16th, 2009 | 4:16 pm | #26
Lenore
November 16th, 2009 | 2:47 pm | #25
Go to :
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html
It’s pretty self-explanatory; and will let you clear whitehouse.com from your machine and deny it access. (I think, lol).
November 16th, 2009 | 4:33 pm | #27
Perhaps his body man Reggie Love was twittering for him before.
November 16th, 2009 | 4:44 pm | #28
Twitter is for morons. It’s like reality tv without all the excitement.
November 16th, 2009 | 4:55 pm | #29
I M P E A C H
It’s the end of the world as we know it if we don’t IMPEACH his a$$
Only you can save us, Sarah
November 16th, 2009 | 4:57 pm | #30
where do you guys come up with this stuff? Turn off Glenn Beck and get a life.
November 16th, 2009 | 7:19 pm | #31
IOpian, I think Palin’s a bit busy with her book tour, but I’m sure Meghan McCain would jump at the chance.
November 16th, 2009 | 8:34 pm | #32
Anyone who actually thought it was Obama who was making those tweets and not a staffer needs to be smacked upside the head.
And I don’t recall him ever claiming to any of us that he did use it, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about. We’ve got a lot more meaningful things to be upset with him about that whether or not he Twitters.
November 16th, 2009 | 9:47 pm | #33
Things like this is why Charles Johnson told all the right wing to pound sand.
Are you people serial? If he did tweet, the right wing fauxrage would be “With two wars to fight, an economy in a mess, why is the President tweeting?”
November 16th, 2009 | 9:50 pm | #34
Sarah Palin may have time to Twitter, seeing as she’s unemployed and all, but the President of the United States has actual responsibilities
November 16th, 2009 | 11:24 pm | #35
hey guys, you’re saying that may not actually be OBAMA tweeting?! does that mean… that ABRAHAM LINCOLN isn’t really tweeting from beyond the grave as well?!
god, you people are retards
November 16th, 2009 | 11:31 pm | #36
Bill,
We didn’t vote for this loser. Unlike you.
So, tell me again, who’s the “retard”?
November 17th, 2009 | 1:45 pm | #37
Well, gosh I guess this is just ONE MORE THING our President lied about. Why should anybody be surprised?
I am counting the days until Sarah Palin is nominated, and then ELECTED as our next President. It’s about time we had brains, AND common sense in the White House. That hasn’t happened for years!
Watch the course of the next congressional and senate elections. Because alot of the faces you see in there today, won’t be in their offices after the next election.
It’s time to scrap heap the garbage; and put in some fresh, new thinkers. I’m just one of many Americans who refuses to see our nation turned socialist under Obama’s administration.
November 19th, 2009 | 8:10 am | #38
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