Obama: victory by tweeting

It announced a mano a mano clamped between Obama and Romney in American elections. But the suspense was short-lived as the outgoing president piles up again for 4 years. Therefore a form of continuity in U.S. policy but also a discontinuity in the way of announcing the victory.

Obama has just used his Twitter account to announce his victory and congratulate the people who voted for him. Thing he did before the traditional discourse that each candidate is to announce his victory and thank the voters or defeat (and good luck to the winner). The tweet "Four more years" has been retweeted nearly 500,000 times at the same time establishing a record of the most retweeted tweet.

Clearly an election under the banner of social networks, Twitter carving the lion's share of that game is remembered record of tweets during Obama's inauguration speech in early September (52,757 tweets per minute).

In this duel via the microblogging site, it is Obama who has already won in terms of number of followers with 22.4 million subscribers to its account @ BarackObama (and an activity of 7929 tweets since its inception).

This is much more than 1.77 million followers Republican candidate (@ MittRomney account), an account also much less active (only 1350 tweets).

Obama is also relayed by his wife, Michelle, whose account is itself more extensive than Romney: 2.2 million followers for the @ MichelleObama.

Finally, since the early votes, Twitter says there were 7 million tweets on this topic. Once again, it is Obama who won on the field with 40% of them and only 24% citing Romney.

In France, the weapon is not yet Twitter still mastered by all politicians or at least their wives. Evidenced by some slippage uncontrolled Valérie Trierweiler, Francois Hollande's partner on the microblogging site.