Obama Now Check-In at the Foursquare

Barack Obama , President of the United States known as the president of the most 'literate' technology. Once during the presidential campaign known BlackBerry addict, Obama is also known as active in social networking. After Facebook and Twitter, Obama is now also listed on the social networking that allows users to easily 'followed, namely Foursquare.

Obama's announcement that uses the Foursquare first delivered the official White House blog. Thus, the White House has now become one of the venues that could be used where check-in for users Foursquare, as well as user accounts that can be followed.

"There are more than 10 million people have been 'checking-in' around the world, and now you will be able to get 'tips' from the White House, about the places visited President Obama, what it does, historical information, and much more," Thus it is written in the White House's official blog. Obama's Foursquare account you can follow here.

Obama is going to check in first at the Foursquare in the series of "economic bus tour" of his in the Midwest United States. The series of this tour is a tour that carried Obama to see firsthand the impact of economic policies on society, as well as listening to the community of policy responses that have been made.

According to the Washington Post website, the idea of ​​using Foursquare in a series of Obama's tour is a suggestion of Harper Reed, who is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Obama's campaign in 2012. With Foursquare, the Obama team hopes the public can observe the activities and the activities of Obama.
However, Obama is not the only politicians and officials in the United States that use Foursquare. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also use Foursquare. Instead, Bloomberg ever recorded in the accounts Foursquare never "check in" on Marriage Equalitocalypse, which is where the gay and lesbian marriage. It also shows support for Bloomberg on gay and lesbian marriage.

In addition, Mitt Romney is one of Obama's rival candidate in the presidential campaign of 2012, also using the Foursquare. Romney is a former governor of Massachusetts and will become one of Republican presidential candidate proposed.
Foursquare is a place-based social network that shows the location of the users. With a lot of "check in" at a given location, users will be "major" which controls a venue. In the United States, many of which struggle to major in one location, because there are few facilities that can be obtained, among other discounts.
Before using Foursquare, Obama also noted active on Twitter. With a "verified account" of his, Obama has officially announced also use Twitter as one of the media campaign for 2012. Twitter account @ BarackObama itself has 9,684,975 followers, who will probably continue to grow.