It appears the lingering credit default by the federal government of the U.S. has been avoided due to a last minute compromise before representatives left for their Summer recess. Twitter has been an important means for both citizens and lawmakers to push their prerogative on the situation.
President Obama used his @BarackObama account to try and stir supporters to act. He urged followers to tweet their congressmen using the hashtag #compromise, with White House staff tweeting out the names of Republican legislators.
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“The results so far have been mixed. According to NM Incite, the #compromise hashtag had been used more than 22,000 times and reached 36 million users (followers of accounts using the hashtag) as of around 5 p.m. ET on Friday, and people had mentioned the President some 28,000 times in tweets,” wrote Adam Ostrow. “NM Incite says 40 percent of the @BarackObama mentions and 28 percent of the #compromise tweets expressed positive sentiment, with only 13 percent and 12 percent of them expressing negative sentiment, respectively.”
A White House aide tweeted afterward that the emails and tweets helped forge a new compromise. The constant tweets may have hurt president’s number of followers, however, with more than 36,000 leaving amidst the event.
Source: Mashable
