Obama uses Twitter bully pulpit to attack GOP, loses 36,000+ followers

It appears President Obama misjudged a number of his 9 million followers today. When his liberal call to action went out to barrage GOP lawmakers with demands of a #compromise, many of Obama's followers started to fall off the wagon:

The results so far have been mixed. According to NM Incite, the #compromise hashtag had been used more than 22,000 times and reached 36 million users (followers of accounts using the hashtag) as of around 5 p.m. ET on Friday, and people had mentioned the President some 28,000 times in tweets. NM Incite says 40% of the @BarackObama mentions and 28% of the #compromise tweets expressed positive sentiment, with only 13% and 12% of them expressing negative sentiment, respectively.

As we noted in our earlier coverage, however, some users felt the state-by-state tweets were creating way too much noise — the President has lost nearly 37,000 followers so far today.

With so many mentions of GOP members of Congress, National Journal's Ethan Klapper wonders if this won't actually help Republicans gain supporters in the Twittersphere:

With 9.4 million followers, Obama’s campaign account is one of the most followed. Mentioning GOP foes to Obama’s followers could help boost their followings on Twitter.

By midafternoon on Friday, that seemed to be the case.

A Senate Republican staffer told National Journal that Republican Senators, in total, added about 6,500 new followers throughout the afternoon.

Job well done, Mr. President!