President Obama's way of using Twitter to get votes is an effective way to get the message out to the public. Compared to Romney, another presidential candidate, President Obama had 404 messages and Romney had 16 messages on Twitter.[4] Social networking sites such as Twitter play an extraordinary role in communicating with people and therefore have a powerful impact on our society today, as they enable or “help” politicians to communicate directly with voters. Indeed, social networking sites could have negative impacts. Additionally, politicians could use their social media sites for promotional purposes. Instead of using social media to communicate with the public, politicians spend their money to promote their elections. Social media, however, has had both a positive and negative impact on our society. this has more positive impacts in our