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Interested in, that sort of thing. inevitably what happens is you start following your favorite basketball player. one day you will have something you want to say back. youll have an opinion and then youll look for how to tweet. so i think thats a natural way in. we couldnt start that way, because there was nothing to pay attention to at first. we had to encourage people to say something. >> a sort of central plank is this would be relationship damaging. weve had store kies are a majo television...

Influence is real engage maenlt and not just using it as a broadcast medium. certainly you can argue that the president has more real world influence than lady gaga or justin bieber, but its really what we measure is how theyre using twitter to communicate with followers around the world. >> does he ever communicate, do you ever see replies back from president obama? >> no. and thats an interesting thing. certainly the administration has a strategy for twitter. its a great strategy, but it is an...

Twitter to communicate with his followers. the fact that he bubbled to the top in this study was surprising to be sure. as i learned more about before bastos, im not surprised. he makes an excellent use of twitter as a medium. >> whats really interesting, if you look at the top five most followed, these are the people who have the most folks go on twitter and say, yes, i want to follow. lady gaga has the most at 7.9 butt, but justin bieber piece her on the influence index. president obama has 6....

Mike huckabee, jim demint, donald trump, newt gingrich. im surprised to see jim demint meeting newt gingrich. by the way, i did plug in my own name. my impact score, 6%. my impact percentile, 93%. how does somebody improve it? >> one thing he see is some news figures, athletes, politicians dont respond. they dont engage in the medium. the more you do that, the more youll drive that score up. congratulations on that 93% score. thats very, very good. >> well, thank you. it doesnt say actually. it ...

Forces until i know what the mission is, til the military tell me it can be completed, and til they tell me how it can come out. >> i know in my heart our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force should be used only as a last resort when everything else failed. >> these guys always say that. they always say they only want to use force as a last resort. they are supervisory luck tant to use the military, but then they get into it, it is big, medium, all sorts of wars, all the tim...

3,000-miles from britain, the tornadoes took off we understand from the defense sethary of britain and three tornadoes launched air strikes on libya. take a listen to the pentagon here at the pentagon to vice admiral william gortney about the tomahawks that were fired. >> a moisture of th mission mie older tomahawks. they give us the ability to loiter and then we can shoot them, a target and they goal to the target. in this particular mission we used them as we have just as one of of the older t...

3,000-miles from britain, the tornadoes took off we understand from the defense sethary of britain and three tornadoes launched air strikes on libya. take a listen to the pentagon here at the pentagon to vice admiral william gortney about the tomahawks that were fired. >> a moisture of th mission mie older tomahawks. they give us the ability to loiter and then we can shoot them, a target and they goal to the target. in this particular mission we used them as we have just as one of of the older t...

>> they allow us to penetrate a medium to high threat without putting air crew at risk, create conditions for manned aircraft. >> has the no-fly zone enforcement begun? and what coalition members will enforce that? will u.s. jets be in the air enforcing it? >> at this point we are creating the conditions to be able to set up the no-fly zone. once we have established and confirmed that the conditions are right, then we will move forward into one of the next phases of the campaign. >> so it has no...

Medium to high threat. >> dont be surprised to see uss 22s. they are stealth fight are jets in the coming days. air force secret staff mentioned they would be likeliful individual. they will not put them up there until the air defense system that qaddafi can susing. the same soviet system that saddam hussein used eight years ago when the coalition forces launch invaded iraq. well know in the the coming hours what the damage to it was. you will not see f22s above libya until the fa 5s are taken o...

Landing 3:00 p.m. eastern, and listen to vice-admiral william go gorteney at the pentagon. >> it was a mixture of old tomahawks and the newer tactical tomahawks and gives us the ability to shoot them, a target and theyll go to the target but in this particular mission we use them as we have. they allow us, to penetrate what wed call a medium to high threat without putting the crew at risk. >> reporter: and you can expect to see f-22 raptors, air force raptors, those are stealth fighter jets, u.s...