One point of concern: The way questions are selected. The answers aren't clear, but the Wednesday event did spark plenty of online discussion on this topic. Which raises yet another question: Is it fair to turn over such a question-answer session to the people of the Internet? Or would democracy be better served by letting pundits, news people or even regular Joes who attend real-life town hall meetings ask questions of officials? So, odds are, of course, your question didn't get asked - much less answered. That's 0.045% of all questions that were posed online, according to raw numbers from a group called TwitSprout, which estimates Twitter users posted 40,000 questions for the president, both before and during the Q&A at the White House. So the event's moderator, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, only was able to ask Obama 18 questions, followed by a few "suggestions" from the Twitter audience after that. Of course, when you're president, time is limited. president would respond to their queries in what was billed as his first-ever Twitter Town Hall. Tens of thousands of people submitted questions under the #AskObama Twitter hashtag on Wednesday, hoping the U.S. (CNN) - Is Twitter really the best way to talk to a president? Others express concern that questions from public figures were asked.Some participants say the event was not conversational enough.President takes 18 questions from Twitter users.Obama participates in Twitter town hall meeting Wednesday.
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