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13 avril 2009

The new Obama dog Bo much discussed on Twitter

In the US more than everywhere else, politics is also a show: the White house is currently broadcasting the presidential Easter egg hunt. And a non-written rule says that president must have an animal. Once elected, Barack Obama respected the tradition and has welcome monday a potuguese waterdog named «Bo».

The web likes animal: think about lolcats. So no surprise that US Twitter users have their say on the new first dog. It gave us the idea of a twitter map showing US tweets about our friend Bo.

Numerous tweets about the first dog those last hours show that he starts well his first mission: replace Barney, Bush's dog, which has starred in multiple films where Georges W. Bush wa appearing too.

We don't know yet whether Obama will do like Queen Elizabeth II, who equipped her dogs with a GPS so that people could track them on a map.

As usual, click on the icons - in this case Bo's profile - to see what's happening.

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Emile Josselin