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Congress on Twitter: Yay, or Nay?

By Ben Patterson | Yahoo! TECH Blog

A new Web site is tracking which U.S. House and Senate members have discovered the joy of tweeting—and which haven’t.

The L.A. Times tech blog has the scoop on Tweet Congress, the aptly named site that lets you search for Twitter-savvy House representatives and Senators by name or location.

You can also find out who’s the most followed (John Culberson, R-TX, with an impressive 5,932 Twitter followers, and counting) and the most active (yep, ditto). Indeed, Republican tweeters outnumber Democrats almost two-to-one (41 to 24), while Independents—I’m looking at you, Lieberman—are still in the dark when it comes to the red-hot microblogging service …

February 2, 2009 Posted by newsdonkey | Twitter | Twitter | Leave a Comment

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