I caught this article on TIME.com entitled “Congress’s New Love Affair with Twitter.” Pete Hoekstra (Twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/PeteHoekstra) has almost 3,000 followers on Twitter. He is the representative for Michigan’s 2nd district in the US House of Representative’s. He Twitter’s often to let his followers know what he is thinking and doing.
The article mentions, since Obama’s (amazing) social networking outreach during the election, many politicians have jumped on the bandwagon and signed up for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social networking sites. Some crtics of this worry about security issues. Hoeskra twitter constantly on his last trip to Iraq sparking concerns that he may be giving away location or any other sensitive information.
Politicians taking on activities normally reserved for their children or grandchildren brings up some interesting issue that national security officials have never had to deal with before. How do you stop politicians from twittering? Also, if 70 year old congressmen and senators are representing themselves (even though the pages, interns or secretaries are the one’s actually dealing with the networks) will it turn the younger generation off? I mean, how many high school students would want to be Facebook friends with their grandparents?
Nah, I think the great thing Twitter has going for it is you get to choose entirely who you follow. No need to pay any attention to the old man (or the young, blonde celebrity), unless you feel like it.
But as far as congressmen Twittering, if many more of them are remotely like the belligerent and hateful @johnculberson (R, TX), well, then, maybe I can get behind tossing them off.
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