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    Drew Olanoff
    September 6th, 2012

    Barack Obama’s Record-Setting Speech: 52,757 Tweets Per Minute, 9M Total DNC Tweets

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    The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records while he was at it, according to the company.

    Extra points to Twitter, the site didn’t go down or falter once during the entire speech. → Read More

    Frederic Lardinois
    August 29th, 2012

    President Barack Obama Joins Reddit, Does An AMA

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    U.S. President Barack Obama is making an unscheduled appearance on Reddit today. Just a few minutes ago, Obama joined Reddit and is scheduled to host an AMA (Reddit slang for “ask me anything”) session starting at 4:30pm ET. Reddit’s moderators have confirmed that this is indeed legit and the questions from Reddit’s users are already coming in at a rapid pace. Obama is scheduled to answer… → Read More

    Frederic Lardinois
    April 13th, 2012

    Google Will Be The Official Social Platform & Livestream Provider For The 2012 Republican Convention

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    The presidential election season in the U.S. is now in full swing and both the Democratic and Republican conventions are just a few months away. Google just announced that it will be the “official social platform and livestream provider” for the Republican convention in Tampa in August. Google promises “a convention without walls” and will use both YouTube and its Google+ social network, to… → Read More

    Alexia Tsotsis
    September 26th, 2011

    Watch Barack Obama Live At LinkedIn Townhall

    Coming off a weekend of Silicon Valley fundraising, President Barack Obama is visiting LinkedIn this morning, in order to talk about jobs, economy, entrepreneurship and the state of employment in the United States in general. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner introduced the president, who began his talk bringing up the recently announced American Jobs Act, which proposes various reforms for small… → Read More

    Sarah Lacy
    February 3rd, 2011

    Hey Obama, Where's the Startup Visa in the Startup America Plan? (TCTV)

    Ankur Jain is the 20-year-old founder of the Kairos Society, a group that tries to discover the world leaders of the future and bring them together for support, mentoring and networking. He swung through San Francisco in between being named one of the partner organizations for President Obama’s Startup America initiative and the Kairos Society’s Global Summit in New York February 25-27, no doubt… → Read More

    Alexia Tsotsis
    October 28th, 2010

    Facebook's Dominance Leaves President No Choice

    In an effort to increase voter turnout for next Tuesday’s Congressional Election, President Barack Obama has put out a call on Twitter for constituents to install a Facebook application called the “Commit to Vote Challenge.” Like a more noble version of Fast Company’s Influence Project, the Commit to Vote challenge takes advantage of the “network effect” by using Facebook to spam your friends… → Read More

    Nicholas Deleon
    October 27th, 2008

    In marketing, Obama is like Nokia while McCain is like Apple

    When you think about Barack Obama what words come to mind? Change? Hope? Socialism? What about John McCain? Maverick? Strength? Bush? Well, according to one market research firm, Synovate, Obama is to Nokia as McCain is to Apple. But of course! It goes like this: Obama’s campaign has focused on linking “his” issues—the economy, education, why the Iraq war was a waste of time and… → Read More