What do rock star President Barack Obama and chic social networking site Twitter have in common? They’re inadvertently competing for the same societal superstardom.
If we make it a popularity contest, Obama has more than 2.5 million followers on Twitter. This puts him second only to actor Ashton Kutcher. But surprise: Twitter is on Twitter too, and it’s just 30,000 followers short of eclipsing Obama’s social media popularity.
In fact, before Ben Bernanke dethroned Obama as Time magazine’s “Per…
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Posted on December 17, 2009 at 11:47pm —
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