With Twitter being all the rage lately, there are bound to be questions about how the popular microblogging tool should be deployed in government. Some agencies fully embrace Twitter, giving the intimidation of government a human face. Others simply have no clue what they’re doing. Accordingly, their follower count reflects that. But, you can’t blame [...]
Correction: It turns out this account is a phony, PC World reports. However, the questions raised by this article still remain legitimate. The White House Twitter account has been dry since the 29th minute of Barack Obama’s presidency. Its last tweet, made at 12:29 p.m. on Jan. 20 was auto-posted via Twitterfeed and came from [...]
The Washington Post today has a great article about Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and his Twittering efforts. The article is cleverly written in paragraphs of less than 140 words: To meet Twitter limits, these paragraphs are 140 characters or fewer. Please overlook odd spelling or punctuation, this time. Warner is definitely one of the more [...]