July 6th, 2011
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Author: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will take on the Twitterverse during a town hall at the White House Wednesday hosted by the popular social media service Twitter. (Follow White House Twitter here)
The event is to focus on jobs and the economy. Twitter “curators” will help select questions for the president that are representative of the most popular topics submitted online, the White House said.
While questioners will have to limit their inquiries to 140 characters, Twitter’s maximum message length, the president will have no such restrictions. Instead of answering via Tweet, Obama will go the more traditional route and answer verbally in front of a live audience gathered in the East Room of the White House.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama wasn’t planning to embrace Twitter’s spirit of brevity and keep his answers concise.
“He’s the leader of the free world. He decides how short his answers will be,” Carney said. “Some questions don’t lend themselves to simplistic answers.”
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