@BarackObama urging users to tweet Republicans on debt ceiling

@BarackObama is urging Twitter users to tweet specific House Republicans to push for a compromise on increasing the federal debt ceiling. 

"Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis," read a post on President Obama's Twitter feed Friday.

The @BarackObama feed promised to "post the Twitter handles of GOP lawmakers in each state," and the posts are running through the list alphabetically by lawmakers' states.

"Alaska voters: Tweet @lisamurkowski and ask her to compromise on a balanced deficit solution," @Barackobama tweeted. 

Obama has also urged voters to use more traditional methods of contacting their legislators to voice their opinion on a debt-ceiling-increase plan. 

He called on Americans to call their legislators and voice support with how they think the debt-ceiling should be dealt with. As a result, congressional phone lines and websites were jammed on Tuesday, peaking at 40,000 calls in an hour — twice as many as usual.

The president repeated that message on Friday, and House telephone lines are jammed again.

Telephone circuits were reported at near capacity around 11:45 a.m. The office of the House’s chief administrative officer did not yet have total call-in figures, but spokesman Dan Weiser told The Hill: “Call volume is up, some people may experience some busy signals.”

@BarackObama, along with the president's Facebook page, are run by staff from his reelection campaign.

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