Town Hall of Twitter's Obama to focus on the economy, employment - CNN

Twitter users are invited to communicate their questions to the hashtag # AskObama.Obama will not be confined to the limit of 140 characters from Twitter "it is just replying to the questions." There is no type and tweeting, "White House saysTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to monitor the flood of tweets"

(CNN) - President Barack Obama answer questions on the economy and employment Wednesday during his first Twitter town hall meeting.

But the President, known for his oft - long responses to the shorter questions, will not be limited to the limit of 140 characters from Twitter. It is orally answering the questions posed by Twitter users, who have been encouraged to use the hashtag # AskObama.

With the exception of questions from users of Twitter - known as tweeps - East Room event City Hall is as much the President has done before: fielding select questions sent through new technologies while giving "old" answers with a microphone.

"It is just replying to the questions." There is no type and tweeting, "White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week.

White House officials have said that the so-called "tweetup" is a new opportunity for the President to engage with the Americans beyond the Beltway.

The event will feature an audience of about 140 people who follow the Twitter of the White House yarn and signed for the chance to attend. The 140 is not a coincidence - it is the number of characters allowed in a tweet.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will monitor the flood planned by the hashtag for the # official AskObama of streaming in.

"The issues addressed in the course of the City Hall are selected in advance and in real time during the event,"Twitter said in a release."

Obama held a town hall similar to the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, in April and a Town Hall of YouTube in the White House in February.

To these two events, the White House has been criticized for ignoring the subject attracted more queries: if he supports the legalization of marijuana.

Although President tweets rarely himself, the administration has used more in addition to social media to bypass traditional media to transmit the information directly to supporters.

Several senior officials tweet regularly, including Carney.

Assad says peace talks should not focus on institutions (Jerusalem Post)

 
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12/09/2010 19 H 35, Syrian President Bashar Assad Thursday said that between Israel and Palestinian peace talks should not focus on the issue of settlements, echoing the position of the United States adding Israel was not a partner for peace "."

Assad, who met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss stalled the process of peace in the Middle East along Iraq and Lebanon, made his comments journalists in Paris.

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"We are against putting colonies at the peace talks" Assad said. "If we want to talk about peace, we speak of legal rights, on the land restitution and doesn't talk about colonies".

The direct talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed on the refusal of Israel freezing the construction of the colony, which Palestinian say must be frozen before may resume negotiations. Philip j. Crowley, the u.s. Department of State spokesman said Thursday that the United States had recognized that persuade Israel to stop Jewish settlements on the disputed West Bank territory had become "an end in itself rather than a means to end."

Sarkozy and Assad discussed tensions in the Lebanon which grew in a probe of the United Nations on the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, in the middle of the possibility that members of the group Hezbollah Muslim Shia the Lebanon can be put in charge, 2005. The movement, supported by the Syria is a partner in the Government of national unity of the Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

"Nobody wants to a confrontation between the Lebanese people," said Assad. "Nobody wants to troubled civilians."

Assad said that he "didn't intrusion with the Lebanon national issues" and refused to make any other comments.

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