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Official White House iPhone App: Download Free

whitehouse app Next week, the president of the United States Barak Obama will be addressing the nation in the annual ‘State of the Union’ speech. Many people will watch it live on TV, others from the White House’s website – some, from the official iPhone app.

The White House have just announced their official app which has been released onto the App Store. There have been other similar apps on the app store (mainly just fancy skins of the White House website) but this one is free and much, much better.

There is a feed to the White House blog, videos, newsroom topics and photos as well as quick updates about national situations and policies. However, the best feature is the video streaming (or ‘Live Content’ as it’s labelled in the app). This enables you to watch news conferences, events and speeches at the White House. So next week, make sure to watch the presidents speech from you cool new, free, White House iPhone app which can be downloaded here.

Obama Never Used Twitter

obama twitter Some of the most popular Twitter accounts (with followers well into the millions) come from well-known faces such as Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry. And of course, the president of the United States Barak Obama. He has over 2.6 million followers who will be disappointed to learn it’s not him behind the Twitter account.

I think everyone knew that he didn’t tweet all of the time but he actually said that he has ‘never’ used Twitter before!

It happened during a meeting with Chinese youth when somebody put a question to him about the freedom of the internet and information in China through networks such as Twitter. He then replied:

“I have never used Twitter but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access.”

To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if he got into a bit of trouble with his publicists who would have preferred to have people think he tweets. Oh well, half the celebrity Twitter accounts are fake anyway – at least this one is actually coming from somebody in the White House.