Some Twitter users lashed out in sometimes profanity-laced replies that exhort the president, who is using @POTUS, to kill himself and worse. The racist angle is particularly disturbing.
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Another company learns the downside of 'social media.' The appliance seller KitchenAid has apologized for an 'irresponsible tweet' about President Obama's grandmother, whom he invoked during last night's debate. Apparently, an employee mistakenly sent out the critical comment on the corporate account, rather than a personal one. 
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To say that President Obama's announcement of support for gay marriage yesterday was historic is something of an understatement. But it appears that it didn't just make history in the fight for gay rights — it may have also made Twitter history as one of the most retweeted messages of all time.
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Dive Bar Girl is our latest 24-hour-viral celebrity, thanks to this Instagram with the Prez. Meanwhile a conservative group tries to "uncool" things down. Are you tired of your honey tagging and bragging about you online? Might be time for a social media pre-nup. Why is no one paying attention to the biggest social media failure of all time - Kony2012? This is what we're talking about online this week. Catch up. Join the conversation.
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A conservative politcial group led by Karl Rove has produced an ad that implies Barack Obama is too cool to be President. It targets younger voters who supported Obama overwhlemingly in 2008 and will probably do so again in 2012. It asks the question "After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?" and then offers undocumented facts like "1 in 2 recent college grads are jobless or underemployed" and "85%" of said former students have had to move back in with their parents. The ad, posted on YouTube, has a less than 200,000 views.
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After years of gun-toting and bow-hunting, Ted Nugent may have finally shot himself himself in the foot. The long-haired rocker and outspoken conservative has drawn the interest of the Secret Service, after he suggested an Obama re-election would force him to “either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” One wonders if the secret service agents will be the ones just back from the Colombia whorehouse detail, or perhaps some others.
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The election may be over, but the online breakdown of how and why things went the way they did is still coming at us. Check out this infographic that analyzes the Facebook fan pages of both candidates in the final hours of the campaign to show some well-known and little known facts about the voters.
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The most famous unwed teenage mother in the United States gives President Obama advice on his gay marriage stance.
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In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage.
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Madalyn Starkey, ‘Dive Bar Girl,’ tells The Daily Beast about her now-famous picture with the president.
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A University of Colorado student had her photo snapped with President Obama on Thursday and it's an Internet sensation. We predict as social media goes, so goes the 2012 election. Obama in a landslide.
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