As my Fleishman-Hillard colleague Mark Senak discussed earlier this month, a good number of congressional members are using social media tools to connect with their constituents, some are even using a little-known, but vibrant tool called Twitter. Unfortunately, some proposals have been made recently on the hill that would prohibit members from “tweeting” and using other new technologies like YouTube to talk to their constituents.
Twitter – if you haven’t heard – is a micropublishing platform that connects individual status updates to a larger group. Sort of like an email group list, or the Facebook status updates, except easier to use on a cell phone, and more fun than a group email list.
The application has ...