Posted on 10/28/2012 4:05:32 PM PDT by markomalley
The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets “concern you.”
“To report a tweet that concerns you, call the nearest field office in your state,” the Secret Service tweeted on Oct. 23. The agency then links to a list of contact numbers for Field Offices in each state.
The Secret Service sent another tweet on Wednesday, again asking its followers to report tweets. “Contact your nearest field office with time-sensitive or critical info or to report a tweet,” it said.
The agency has accrued more than 44,000 followers since joining the social media platform on May 9, 2011. Twitter surpassed 500 million user accounts around the world earlier this year, 140 million of which are in the U.S.
Twitter has become a popular platform for political engagement, as demonstrated by the surge in tweets during the three presidential debates. Twitter reported that the first match-up between President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney on Oct. 3 was the “most tweeted-about event in U.S. politics,” with 10.3 million tweets and as many as 158,690 tweets per minute.
“By comparison, during the 2008 debates between Obama and John McCain, only 500,000 tweets were created total during all four debates,” according to PRO OnCall Technologies. “The first two minutes of the Obama/Romney debate saw two million tweets.”
In September, a North Carolina man was arrested for threatening to kill President Barack Obama on Twitter.
Its not our fathers Secret Service.
Today they get they arrested for pedophilia, drunkenness and solicitation.
Everything Obama touches he corrupts.
U.S. Secret Service member charged with sexual abuse of 14-year-old girl: report
For anyone with an account, it’s been reported all day that even Twitter is covering up the #Bengazi tags. They’re switching over to #7hrsOfHell
And, to the SS who’s probably reading this. If you please use your powers and go back to the night of the last debate, I’d sure like to make you aware of the MANY MANY MANY threats against Romney’s life. I can’t find them, but I’ll betcha YOU can!
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