http://vdov.net (no longer) the 871,446th most popular blog on the tubes Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/01/your-government-on-twitter-again-social-media-and-govt/ http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/01/your-government-on-twitter-again-social-media-and-govt/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:50:29 +0000 afischer http://vdov.net/?p=805 A while ago I wrote a post about government types on Twitter. What surprised me at the time was that Republicans seemed to outnumber Democrats on Twitter. A blogger from the UK, Mat Morrison, confirms my supposition with a nice map. He also brings up a point I hadn’t even considered. There is almost no cross-talk between the two parties (at least on Twitter). It really makes on wonder what contact Republicans and Democrats have online. Do congressmen text each other all the time? Email? Is participation in social media balkanizing or unifying? The one thing Mr. Morrison doesn’t address is the “authenticity” of congressional tweets. There is a HUGE difference between Hillary/Obama’s staffer written tweet directives and the personal tweeting of Rep. John Culberson, Tim Ryan, Thad McCotter, or Neil Abercrombie (who has a very odd twitter feed… and starts a lot of tweets with a “Hi everybody” or similar phrase).

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