Twitter trends: #47percent responds to Romney

Mitt Romney is dealing with the fallout on Tuesday from the Monday release of a video where he dismissed the “47 percent” of voters who are “dependent on government."

And Twitter is dealing with Romney, with plenty of Twitter citizens — some of them well-known, such as screenwriter Kevin Williamson — tweeting that they pay their taxes but are still voting for President Obama.

Excuse me, @mittromney I pay my taxes and the @barackobama approach is more attractive than you.Why are you so rude?

— Kevin Williamson (@kevwilliamson) September 18, 2012

The hashtags #Romneyencore and #47percent were both trending in the United States on Tuesday morning, helped along by users such as documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and comedian Chris Rock, whose "God Bless 47% of America!" tweet earned more than 5,000 re-tweets.

Mitt Romney, the guy who pays no taxes on millions of dollars thinks you're a welfare freeloader. God Bless 47% of America! #RomneyEncore

— Chris Rock (@chrisrockoz) September 18, 2012

President Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee both pounced on the remarks, with David Axelrod mocking Romney's response to the video and DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse noting that there was nothing to "spin" in Romney's remarks.

It wasn't spin on our part.Mitt Romney is as out of touchwith the American people as you can possibly believe.

— Brad Woodhouse (@woodhouseb) September 18, 2012

Romney's team chose not to respond on Twitter to the controversy, instead letting the conversation run its course in the social sphere.