President Barack Obama’s aides sent text messages to tens of thousands of people about crowd control, public transportation and even the weather Tuesday as he took the oath of office and immediately started building another massive technology-based list of supporters. Starting a week before Obama took office, aides to the inaugural committee warned visitors of subway stations’ closures, television schedules and even train schedules — part of Obama’s aggressive communications strategy that delivered him his Democratic Party’s nomination and later the White House.
