On a call with reporters on Tuesday, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said Obama is doing this in recognition of the new way that information is spread.
Apparently when Twitter really arrived on the scene as a popular social media zeitgeist, while most people saw it as a way to spreadinformation, researchers saw it as an opportunity for lots of free data.
It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spreadinformation, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.