Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to keep the pressure on lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the nations $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline. Obamas campaign staff used the @BarackObama Twitter account to post the Twitter handles of tweeting GOP leaders state by state, tweet by tweet.
Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis, Obamas campaign staff wrote on his account before launching the day-long Twitter campaign.
The campaign appears to have served its purpose: Republican Twitter accounts were flooded with pleas for compromise.
Not everyone is a fan of the presidential spam. By Friday evening, the President had lost more than 40,000 Twitter followers - and counting.
Many members of the Twitterati took to the social media platform to voice their annoyance over the barrage of partisan tweets. A search for @BarackObama unfollow turned up scores of irritated posts.
Honestly, @BarackObama, Im going to have to unfollow you if you dont stop filing up my Twitter inbox soon, tweeted Bostonian @melisthreadgill, a self-described Progressive activist.
Cant believe I had to unfollow @BarackObama for spamming Twitter. Really, really strange behavior, wrote @Arevill inConnecticut.
I want to unfollow @BarackObama but his desperation is too entertaining, tweeted @rdpatrick of Lavonia, Georgia.