#AskObama: History-making or ho-hum?

President Obama types his first tweet on Wednesday, July 6 as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey looks on.                        Photo: Dana Ritter/CBS News

President Obama, whom admirers tout as our first social media president — much like Bill Clinton was once touted as our first rock n’ roll president — decided this week that a Town Hall meeting could be micro-blogged.

Put another way, Obama read pithy questions off a screen in front of a press gaggle rather than take lengthy questions from a press gaggle. At least that’s how it looked via livestream.

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