White House Won't Tweet Cairo Speech
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday that the administration will go to great lengths -- and employ various Internet technologies -- to ensure that President Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday is distributed as far and wide as possible. The speech is expected to open up a new dialogue with the Muslim world and could provide the most significant guidance from Obama yet about advancing the Middle East peace process. "I think there will be a great effort on our part to distribute this through different means, social networking sites, in order to get this in front of as many eyes throughout the world as we can," Gibbs said.
But when pressed on the tech-related specifics of the plan, Gibbs was unsure of what platforms will carry Obama's message:
Q: Robert, just a quick procedural question. You said that you guys are going to distribute the Cairo speech on social networks. Are you guys going to be Twittering it?
GIBBS: No -- that'd be awkward, wouldn't it? We can't even get that on the computers here. No, I think what I mean by that -- and we'll have some more in-depth on this, but obviously our goal is to ensure that the greatest number of people with an interest to see this -- not just through newspapers and television, but can see this through Web sites, I think it will be broadcast -- I'm pretty sure it will be broadcast on our Web site and the Internet team here is working with a host of others to get this information to as many platforms as humanly possible so that people will get a chance all over the world to see what the president has to say.
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