Barack Obama
@BarackObama Washington, DC
This account is run by #Obama2012 campaign staff. Tweets from the President are signed -BO.
http://www.barackobama.com

Spam: You may not use the Twitter service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be spamming are:
If you have followed a large amount of users in a short amount of time;
If you have followed and unfollowed people in a short time period, particularly by automated means (aggressive follower churn);
If you repeatedly follow and unfollow people, whether to build followers or to garner more attention for your profile;
If you have a small number of followers compared to the amount of people you are following;
If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates;
If you post misleading links;
If a large number of people are blocking you;
The number of spam complaints that have been filed against you;
If you post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account;
If you post multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #;
If you post multiple unrelated updates to a trending or popular topic;
If you send large numbers of duplicate @replies or mentions;
If you send large numbers of unsolicited @replies or mentions in an attempt to spam a service or link;
If you add a large number of unrelated users to lists in an attempt to spam a service or link;
If you repeatedly post other users' Tweets as your own;
If you have attempted to "sell" followers, particularly through tactics considered aggressive following or follower churn;
Creating or purchasing accounts in order to gain followers;
Using or promoting third-party sites that claim to get you more followers (such as follower trains, sites promising "more followers fast," or any other site that offers to automatically add followers to your account);
If you create false or misleading Points of Interest;
If you create Points of Interest to namesquat or spam.

I saw a CNN Headline News tracker the other day informing me that the White House "rickrolled" it's readers on twitter. Seriously.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/2 ... 11345.html

Privatizing Social Security defeats the point of Social Security. You might as well just get rid of it.

The debt rating agencies aren't impressed. We're still very likely to be downgraded, and rightly so.

Being downgraded is good for us. We'll never stop borrowing money and raising our debt ceiling until people stop loaning us money.

Pretty much the way I see it too.

You are missing the true impact of this.

The downgrade of US debt will mandate an absolute flight from US treasuries. Mutual Funds and Retirement Accounts which are made up of only AAA rated entities are going to be forced into a sell-off immediately, precipitating the crash of the bond market.

Not if they are still the most attractive investment. In other words, if they all suck, but the US Treasury just sucks less....

The only thing the US AAA rating does is support the status quo.

If change is desired, you have to disrupt the status quo, right?