Comments on: Prolonged Radio Silence Can Kill Your Community; Will Barack Obama’s Community Lose Its Momentum? http://drinkingoatmealstout.com/2008/11/15/prolonged-radio-silence-can-kill-your-community-will-barack-obamas-community-lose-its-momentum/ where we drink up the Web and postulate about its future Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Garber http://drinkingoatmealstout.com/2008/11/15/prolonged-radio-silence-can-kill-your-community-will-barack-obamas-community-lose-its-momentum/#comment-15776 Jason Garber Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:17:28 +0000 http://oatmealstout.wordpress.com/?p=727#comment-15776 Setting aside that the man just won the Presidency in what was the longest political campaign in history, I don't think a ten day "outage" from Twitter is really that big of a deal. As you mention, turn on CNN and it's wall-to-wall Obama coverage. If it's personal connection you're craving, sign up for email updates on <a href="http://change.gov/" rel="nofollow">change.gov</a>, check out <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom" rel="nofollow">Barack on Flickr</a> (where they've been posting a ton of photos), or just <a href="http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this.jpg" rel="nofollow">chill out</a>. We've got him for four years, I think taking ten days off of a niche social site is okay. Weigh that against the number of vacation days our current President has taken, and it'll seem like nothing. Setting aside that the man just won the Presidency in what was the longest political campaign in history, I don’t think a ten day “outage” from Twitter is really that big of a deal. As you mention, turn on CNN and it’s wall-to-wall Obama coverage. If it’s personal connection you’re craving, sign up for email updates on change.gov, check out Barack on Flickr (where they’ve been posting a ton of photos), or just chill out.

We’ve got him for four years, I think taking ten days off of a niche social site is okay. Weigh that against the number of vacation days our current President has taken, and it’ll seem like nothing.

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