GOP Joins the Twittering Masses

This is interesting. Apparently, the GOP (among other officials) are now on Twitter!

I had to post this under the Humor category also because it made me laugh. “jasoninthehouse”

By Ki Mae Heussner:

Republicans Embrace Twitter, Even During Closed-Door Meetings

President George W. Bush wasn’t exactly what you’d call an active user of “the Internets.”

And, during the presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain admitted his own lukewarm relationship with the computer.

But now that the GOP is without a branch of government to call its own, Republicans in Congress are turning to technology’s latest trend to re-establish their political power, 140 characters at a time.

Fifty members of Congress use the micro-blogging service Twitter to communicate with constituents, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan watchdog group that advocates for greater transparency through technology.

One might think that the party of our BlackBerry-wielding, text-happy president would be the one to lead the way in this ever-expanding Twitter-verse.

But, in Congress, it appears that, according to Sunlight, Twittering Republicans outnumber their Democratic counterparts almost 2 to 1.

Read more @ ABC News