Is Barack Obama blocking conservatives on Twitter?

By now, you’re very familiar with the stories of conservatives getting trapped in the #TwitterGulag after being blocked and reported for spam. But it seems that the official @BarackObama Twitter account has also taken to blocking critics of the president.

From the Jammie Wearing Fool:

Well, so much for transparency. Apparently the thin-skinned occupant of the White House, or whoever is running his Twitter account, can’t handle a little ribbing from a constituent. Like many on Twitter I enjoy adding “@BarackObama” to tweets if I’m poking fun at him, which happens often.

Then the other day when he personally  sent a tweet from a long distance saying he was “standing by” the hapless Tom Barrett in Wisconsin, I went to check it out.

Then I found I was blocked from seeing his tweets.

So here I am, someone helping pay this jerk’s salary and I can’t see his tweets? It seems more than a little childish for the President of the United States (or his handlers) to be blocking access to an account followed by over 16 million people.  We assume it’s a staffer behind this. If it’s Obama himself, we’ve got much larger problems than we thought.

Does one little blogger really get under their skin that much? If so, mission accomplished.

We’ve always known President Obama had a thin skin, but we didn’t realize just how thin it actually is.

Wondering why @barackobama blocked me lol—
Nobama 2012 (@johnpaul530) June 08, 2012

@Snarky_Basterd @BarackObama lol yep I'm blocked roflmao what a guttless wonder and a lying Hippocratic jerk—
bryant (@greyghost11) June 07, 2012

I've been blocked by @Barackobama!!! AWESOME!! That just made my month!!!—
John Eger (@rawhide071) June 05, 2012

I think I got blocked by @BarackObama , that makes me feel special. #GOP—
Mike Wade (@Mike_Wade90) June 04, 2012

Just learned @BarackObama has blocked me on Twitter. How Presidential. #ThinSkin—
T.R. Talbert (@ctsa) June 01, 2012

LOL!!! UN BE FRICKINGLIEVABLE!! @barackobama BLOCKED ME! I WISH TWITTER LET YOU KNOW WHEN SO I WOULD KNOW WHAT TWEET PISSED HIM OFF…—
It Is So (@ItIsSo2) May 31, 2012

Based on a quick Twitter search, the @BarackObama account’s practice of blocking dissenters doesn’t seem to be too prevalent. Not yet, at least. It seems like the blocking may have started only recently.

@RJanney @JammieWF @BarackObama Hmmmm, wonder who else has been blocked? Is he now keeping a list of #Twitter detractors as well? LOL—
CaliKat (@CaliKat2) June 07, 2012

Does Barack Obama have a new kind of enemies’ list? And are you on it? Let us know if El Presidente has blocked you, too.

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