That's what happens when you call the White House boring.
The debt ceiling debate has been front and center all week. However, it seems the White House hasn't completely lost its sense of humor despite the seriousness of the issues at hand. The web is buzzing about a tweet sent out by the White House's official social media team. Yesterday, Twitter user Davids Wiggs commented, "This White House correspondence briefing isn't nearly as entertaining as yesterday's," only to receive a rick roll from the White House Twitter account.
The link led to the popular (if a little worn out, at this stage) 80s pop song 'Never Gonna Give You Up' by Rick Astley. The White House has not commented on the Tweet and the @whitehouse Twitter account resumed regular programming immediately following the rick roll.
Social media is seen as a more informal way to stay in touch or reach out to your target audience. However, this also means that the rules for the people operating these social media accounts and how they should conduct themselves are harder to define. Do you think the White House social media team took it too far and acted unprofessionally, or do you appreciate the joke? Let us know in the comments below!
-prepares for impeding rants-
They could lighten the mood by getting some work done... they've only had about 3 years at this point to do so.
Agree, i love being rick rolled when you least expect it.
Unfortunately the majority of people will not understand this and will call it unprofessional, which it is. It really is a good way to get more followers to the white house twitter account.
Good publicity stunt if it was, otherwise someone is in the dog house for it.
You can say it's unprofessional, but twitter itself can basically be deemed unprofessional to begin with, so it really shouldn't be up for debate. To connect to the youth and what will be the majority population in the future, you need to be on social media now, no matter how "unprofessional" it seems. And if I remember correctly, didn't many people who like George W. Bush like him because he was basically an "everyman", a guy you could see yourself chatting it up with at a BBQ? I personally don't want that in a president himself, but to get his agenda out and communicate with people through social media (considering it's basically a necessity to do so at this point)...that's fine with me.
less debt then america has now or it's 22 trillion by 2015 projection
now THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE AMERICA IS THE NEXT U.S.S.R.
gawd i love shopping sprees on somebody else's dime!
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The difference is that the world didn't run on the ruble. America goes down, the whole world does.
Compared to the GOP being only about 120 years behind the times...