President Obama took to Twitter to ask his followers press their Congress representatives to accept his party’s version of the debt deal.

Obama’s campaign staff used the @BarackObama account to ask followers to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on”.

The Obama’s aides posted more than 100 messages with the handles of GOP and Congressional leaders.

No sooner than the aides started tweeting the handles his followers starting unfollowing the President. By Friday evening, the President had lost more than 40,000 followers – and counting.

Many members of the Twitterati took to the social media platform to voice their annoyance over the barrage of partisan tweets. A search for “@BarackObama unfollow” turned up scores of irritated posts.

“Honestly, @BarackObama, I’m going to have to unfollow you if you don’t stop filing up my Twitter inbox soon,” tweeted Bostonian @melisthreadgill, a self-described “Progressive activist”.

“Can’t believe I had to unfollow @BarackObama for spamming Twitter. Really, really strange behavior,” wrote @Arevill inConnecticut.

“I want to unfollow @BarackObama but his desperation is too entertaining,” tweeted @rdpatrick of Lavonia, Georgia.