Okay, I’m a twitter fan. I’ve been doing it for awhile now. If you don’t know what twitter is, it’s a “mini-blog” site, where you say what you’re doing in 140 characters or less. It’s social networking at its most elemental. It’s facebook status stripped bare. In fact, you can push your tweets (what you call twitter updates) to your facebook account as status updates. Go get yourself a free account at www.twitter.com and/or www.facebook.com. You’ll find me both places under my own name.
Well, apparently I’m not the only one who sends tweets regularly. And, to tell you the truth, lately I haven’t been on much. But, last night during Obama’s speech numerous members of congress were sending tweets about their reactions to the speech. I’m just not sure that’s the appropriate place for tweets. I mean, really, if you’re in the same room with the president, and he’s speaking, even if you have met the president before and it’s kind of old hat to you, shouldn’t you be paying close attention. To, you know, what the president is saying?
Now, this brings up an interesting point – yes, I can twitter AND pay attention at the same time. However, I’m guessing I might be a bit more tech-savvy than some of those who were supposedly sending messages. I believe it may well be staffers who are doing a lot of that. In fact, one rep got caught by that very thing.
The Washington Post has a great article about all the twittering from the floor last night. Check it out.
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